Anti-Army protests were staged in Pakistan’s Punjab province over alleged rigging in the recently-concluded general elections, held on July 25.
Anti-Army protests were staged in Pakistan’s Punjab province over alleged rigging in the recently-concluded general elections, held on July 25.
The protesters, while rejecting ‘the bogus results,’ were heard chanting the slogan, ‘Ye jo dahshatgardi hai, iske peeche vardi hai (Army is behind this terrorism).’
On Monday, the workers of the Awami National Party (ANP) also held a protest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) against the alleged rigging in elections.
Mass protests were held in Charsadda, Buner, Lower Dir, Peshawar, Nowshera and other district headquarters in the province.
Amidst allegations of rigging in the recently-concluded general elections in Pakistan, an Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) spokesperson recently said that the same was conducted in a fair manner.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerged as the single largest party with 115 seats after the ECP on July 28 released the complete preliminary results for 270 of 272 National Assembly (NA) constituencies. However, the party fell short of the 137-majority mark.
The ECP completed the process almost three days after the general elections were held. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) won 64 seats, while the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) bagged 43 seats.
Soon after the results were announced, a multi-party conference was called by the PML-N to prepare a strategy over the alleged rigging of the general elections.
Chaired by PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif and Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) President Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the all-party conference rejected the poll results and demanded a transparent re-election in the country.
Meanwhile, there are reports that twelve religious parties, including Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-backed Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek, which contested the general elections in Pakistan saw a decline in their vote share when compared with the 2013 polls, securing just over 9 per cent of the total votes polled across the country.
According to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the highest number of votes for religious parties was cast in Punjab (2,704,856 votes) but that contributed to only 7.98 per cent of the province's overall vote bank the lowest among all other provinces in Pakistan, The Dawn reported.
The far-right groups managed to secure only 5,203,285 (9.58 per cent) of the total 54,319,922 votes polled across the country as most of them saw a decline in their vote bank when compared to the 2013 general election, the preliminary results showed.
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