Sindh Awami Ittehad alleges LG polls were rigged, demands re-election

Karachi
Another opposition party raised its voice against alleged rigging in the second phase of local government election on Thursday when former chief minister Liaquat Jatoi, too rejected the results and demanded a re-election in the province.
Jatoi, who now leads his own Sindh Awami Ittehad, addressed a press conference at his resident with the party’s general secretary Zafar Ali Shah and demanded dissolution of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). He said the institution was merely a rubber stamp and should be dissolved.
A day earlier, another former chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim had led a sit-in of all opposition parties of the province outside the office of Sindh Election Commission, also rejecting the election results and demanding re-polling in the entire province, except Badin where another dissident leader Dr Zulfiqar Mirza had been able to clinch a significant number of seats.
Meanwhile, Jatoi while arguing his case demanded that re-election should be held in the entire province under the supervision of judiciary and the armed forces.