Hafiz Naeem demands formation of JIT to ascertain why UC chairmen belonging to PTI remained absent on the day of Karachi mayor election
KARACHI, June 19 (SABAH): Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Karachi Emir Engineer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said on Monday that his party would stage a protest outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) office in Islamabad on June 23 (Friday) against the PPP government’s alleged use of force to win the Karachi mayoral election.
“It will be a massive protest and we will question the ECP about the polls it held in Karachi […] the ECP will have to declare the election invalid and rectify all its mistakes,” he said.
Addressing a press conference in Karachi on Monday, JI’s candidate for Karachi mayor Engineer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that the party was mulling taking a convoy of protesters from Karachi to the federal capital on June 23. “We can’t accept these fake and rigged elections,” he asserted, adding that the PPP had “unlawfully held Karachi’s mandate” to keep its “donkey network” active.
Hafiz Naeemur Rehman went on to say that the ECP had completely failed to hold free and fair elections in Karachi, questioning how the body would be able to hold polls across the country. “This was just a trailer, the entire film is yet to be unveiled.”
“How can we trust this institution to hold unbiased elections? If the ECP works as a facilitator for parties, how will democracy flourish in Pakistan?”
The JI Karachi chief vowed that his party would adopt every legal and constitutional path to bring the truth before the public.
“If you had won the elections in a fair manner, we would have accepted the results without any complaints. But we won’t accept this rigging in any way.”
Hafiz Naeemur Rehman further warned that he wouldn’t let the PPP interfere in the development work underway in JI’s union councils.
Hafiz Naeemur Rehman demanded formation of a JIT (joint investigation team) to ascertain why the union council chairmen belonging to the PTI remained absent on the day election was for the port city’s mayor.
Representatives from all the spy agencies should be made part of the JIT to determine how these elected members went missing during the process, said Hafiz Naeemur Rehman told media and accused the PPP and the ECP (Election Commission of Pakistan) of having a nexus.
Describing the election of PPP’s Murtaza Wahab as Karachi mayor a robbery committed against the city’s mandate and totally fake, he said the process was exposed the reality of PPP and ECP.