Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha resigns from his post accepting that elections in his division were rigged

RAWALPINDI, Feb 17 (SABAH): Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha on Saturday resigned from his post accepting that elections in his division were rigged.

Addressing a press conference at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Liaqat Ali Chattha said he attempted to commit suicide in the morning because his conscience was pricking him a lot.

He said he was surrendering himself to police taking responsibility for the episode. The commissioner said they changed the lead of 70,000 votes of winning candidates into their defeat by a margin of 50,000 votes.

He said the defeated candidates in Rawalpindi division were made winners. Chattha said he was feeling sorry for his subordinates to whom he forced for wrongdoings.

According to him, on 13 seats of the Rawalpindi division, the winning candidates were made defeated. He alleged that Chief Election Commissioner and Chief Justice of Pakistan were also involved in this rigging. The commissioner said he deserved punishment and should be hanged on this wrongdoing.

Chattha said as first he tried to commit suicide at Fajr prayer but later he thought it better to tell the reality to all people. He was having sleepless nights after this backstabbing and breach of trust. He said he saw presiding officers crying over what was happening. When the journalists asked him to name the persons who forced him to carryout rigging, he did not reply.

Rawalpindi division includes Attock, Murree, Rawalpindi, Jhelum and Chakwal districts.