Summary Awami National Party's (ANP) record has been rejected as it did not bear party authorization
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan People s Party (PPP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Wednesday have filed their submissions in the judicial commission (JC). Other political parties are likely to sibmit records today as it is the last day and the JC will hold open court on April 16 to probe the matter of alleged rigging in the General Elections 2013.
According to the details, Awami National Party s (ANP) record has been rejected as it did not bear party authorization.
Earlier, the first meeting of the judicial commission headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk was held on April 9. The bench comprised of Justice Amir Hani Muslim and Justice Ijaz Afzal. All the political parties were urged to submit their recommendations until April 15.
The time to file submissions has been increased by 2.5 hours until 6 pm today.
Awami National Party (ANP) submitted the record of the General Elections 2013 from Sindh and Balochistan to the commission. ANP also provided the commission with first information reports (FIRs) of rigging and terrorist activities. The party maintained that the members could have won at least ten to twelve seats in the National Assembly (NA) while at least 35 General seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) if there was no rigging. However, the record was rejected by the commission.
Former (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad and Muhajir Qaumi Movement have also submitted pleas to become parties in the matter to be probed by the commission.
PPP has also finalised its preparations to present evidences of alleged rigging in the controversial elections. Former prime minister (PM) Raja Pervez Ashraf and Sardar Lateef Khosa are likely to file petition today.
According to the sources, the Fact Finding Reports of constituencies 51, 64, 98, 138 and 139 have been included in the record submitted to the commission. While the white papers of the constituency NA-124 have also been made part of the record submitted.
PPP maintains that most of the records of model constituencies are missing whereas the vote counts of the NA and provincial assemblies are also contradictory. Moreover, the counter files were also miused in the elections.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) formed an eight-member task force to collect rigging evidences. The committee is likely to submit its record today after collecting pictures, fake ballot papers and videos as evidences from different party members.
While, Pakistan Justice Party, after losing all the seats in the elections, has maintained that no rigging was conducted in the General Elections 2013.
