The police arrested the Commissioner of Rawalpindi Division, Liaquat Ali Chatta, who resigned after accepting responsibility for rigging the recently concluded elections in Pakistan. On Sunday (February 18), Dawn reported that Chata surrendered to the police after resigning at the press conference. Later the police raided his office and closed it.
A local official said the administration ordered the closure of the office to prevent record fraud. A police spokesperson said that the commissioner was not arrested. He has been kept in police custody.
A senior official of the Rawalpindi district administration said that the security of the election officials has been increased. Election related materials and data are secured. Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chata resigned from his post on Saturday (February 17). He resigned from his post claiming that the February 8 elections in Pakistan were rigged.
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In a press conference, Liaquat Ali said that there was vote fraud in the election and he himself was involved in it. He mentioned only the irregularities and the delay in announcing the results as very few and claimed that there was a lot of fraud in the elections.
He also said that there are many independent candidates who were leading by 70 to 80 thousand votes and we lost them with fake votes. And there are many who would have lost; But we made them win by rigging their votes.
Voting in Pakistan ends on February 8. After that it takes three days to publish the final result. But it shows that no party has got the majority to form the government alone. Even the post-election alliance formation has created a complicated situation. Neither party is able to reach a consensus.
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Besides, Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf is still protesting alleging massive vote rigging. The party claimed that its candidates won more than 150 seats but it was rigged to 92. As a result, it is still not clear who will form the new government in the country by forming a coalition.
Sources: Dawn, Geo News, The Tribune Express
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