February 15 at 11:55 PM
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam have said that the election was not transparent, so they reject it.
PTI delegation met Maulana Fazlur Rehman in Islamabad on Thursday night.
In a joint press conference after the meeting, it was said that both parties agree that the elections were not fair, transparent and impartial, therefore both parties reject the recent general elections.
The leaders of JUI said that there is agreement on the non-transparency of the elections, but the decision on how to proceed in this regard will be taken later.
Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, who was part of the PTI delegation, said that both parties agreed that these elections were rigged.
He added that his party would hold a nationwide protest against rigging on February 17.
The PTI delegation included Asad Qaiser, Aamir Dogar, Barristersif, Fazal Muhammad and Umeer Niazi, while on behalf of JUI besides Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Engineer Ziaur Rehman, Senator Talha Mehmood, Aslam Ghori, Mufti Roozi Khan, Hafiz Hamdullah. , and Sahibzada Asjad Mahmood participated in the discussion.
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain’s ‘non-political’ meeting with Parvaiz Elahi in Adiala Jail
February 15 at 7:54 PM
Pakistan Muslim League chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain met his brother-in-law and Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in Adiala Jail on Thursday.
Muslim League spokesperson Mustafa Malik confirmed the meeting in a statement and said that Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, Chaudhry Shafi Hussain, Chaudhry Salik Hussain, and Mantaha Ashraf were also present in the meeting.
According to the spokesperson, the meeting was completely ‘non-political’ and it is wrong to politicize the meeting.
February 15 at 7 p.m
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf nominated Mian Aslam as Chief Minister of Punjab.
PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan told the media outside Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi that Mian Aslam has been nominated as Chief Minister of Punjab while Salar Khan Kakar has been nominated for Balochistan.
He said that Aqibullah Khan will be the candidate for the Speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, while the candidates for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly will be announced soon.
Barrister Gohar rejected the speculations of forming the government together with PPP, PML-N and MQM and said, “As per Imran Khan’s instructions, we will not form an alliance with these parties.”
He further said that ‘we will make a strong opposition till we get the full mandate, we are in a position to form the government in Punjab, Center and KP.’
He urged the Election Commission and the Judiciary to take notice of the ‘fake mandate’ and immediately hear PTI’s cases.
He said that we have given detailed consideration to form the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and fight our case in the federation and Punjab. We have discussed the election with Khan Sahib, we believe that according to the record we have won 180 seats.
Barrister Gauhar Khan announced that his party will hold peaceful protests across the country on Saturday (February 17).
He said that for this purpose we are inviting all the political parties whether it is GDA, Jamaat-e-Islami, JUI(F), TLP, ANP or any other party. It is believed that the mandate was changed and rigged.
He added that PTI would record a peaceful protest on Saturday afternoon and requested the public to participate in it. “These elections were very important […] And we will not allow our mandate to be stolen.
Mian Aslam Iqbal will be the Chief Minister of Punjab, Salar Kakar will be the candidate for Chief Minister of Balochistan – Barrister Gohar’s talk pic.twitter.com/DbstnXDSHk
February 15 at 1:45 p.m
Umar Ayub Khan nominated as Prime Ministerial candidate of PTI
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Qaiser has said on Thursday that his party has nominated Umar Ayub Khan as its candidate for the post of Prime Minister.
Speaking to the media along with Barrister Saif and other PTI leaders in Rawalpindi on Thursday, Asad Qaiser said: ‘Imran Khan has nominated Umar Ayub Khan as the candidate for the Prime Minister, he will be our candidate for the post of Prime Minister, God willing. For We hope that, God willing, the prime minister will come to us and Omar Ayub will be our representative.
However, PTI’s media office said that all such nominations are announced by their office.
Umar Ayub Khan has held the post of Federal Minister for Energy and then Federal Minister for Economic Affairs in the former PTI government. He joined PTI in February 2018.
After the general elections of February 8 in Pakistan, on the night of January 13, the leaders of six major political parties agreed to form a coalition government and PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has been nominated as the candidate for the Prime Ministership, while the party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has been mired in various constitutional and legal issues since its election symbol was stripped.
Due to the delay in the election results, allegations of rigging by other political parties including PTI have also come forward and protests have also been made in this regard.
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PTI leader Asad Qaiser said in this regard: ‘The rigging that has taken place in the election, every child knows that the way our mandate is being stolen, Imran Khan will give a formal date by this evening. We will start a protest movement on this in the entire country, in which we will take out rallies and protest in the four provinces and districts of the country.
Asad Qaiser said that he has been entrusted with the responsibility of contacting all political parties on behalf of the party. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, ANP, Qaumi Watan Party, other nationalist and religious parties, who are protesting, will form a strategy together with them because this stolen mandate is the history of Pakistan. The worst election has happened.
“No one is accepting this election in Pakistan, this election has no credibility and no one is taking it seriously in the international world, so we have decided that we will protest in the whole country.”
During the press conference, PTI leader Barrister Saif said that Imran Khan has nominated Asad Qaiser’s brother Aqibullah for the post of Speaker of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and he will be our new speaker.
Imran Khan’s message to America
Barrister Saif said: ‘He (Imran Khan) has given a special message regarding the United States that the United States monitored all the elections, all the agencies monitored but the kind of statement that came from the United States. More weight should be given, there should be pressure that the election that has taken place in Pakistan and the rigging that has taken place in it and the mismanagement that has been shown, the way Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has been tried to get out of the election process through various tactics. has gone, it becomes the duty of the United States to condemn it and raise its voice regarding it, which the United States has not fulfilled in this way.’
He added: ‘This is the message of Khan Sahib that we believe that America has either patronized dictators and imposed them on different countries or they have made corrupt people of different countries the rulers. And have supported them.
“Democracy has been insulted in the name of democracy by always supporting such people in power.” Barrister Saif said, “The message from Imran Khan is that this is an opportunity for America to clean up its past role.” To make it democratic, to make it credible, keep an eye on the rigging of the election, tell all those who are involved in it, use your influence to solve it.’
The US State Department has called for an investigation into allegations of rigging during Pakistan’s general elections more than once in recent days.
Previously, on February 8, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union had also expressed concerns over the ‘level playing field, lack of inclusion and transparency’ during the general elections in Pakistan, which has been rejected by Islamabad. .
On February 12, caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar had said that the European Union, United Kingdom and the United States are friendly countries but they cannot interfere in internal affairs.
He alleged that these countries believed the news circulating on social media to be true and therefore they are saying such things. According to the caretaker prime minister: ‘If necessary, they will investigate the alleged rigging in the elections according to their own laws.’
He termed the allegations of alleged rigging by some members of the US Congress as ‘personal opinion’ and said that it is not the opinion of the US government.
Anwar-ul-Haq further said that if someone had to do the rigging, the largest army was present in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but nothing like that happened.
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2024-06-27 09:20:08