Islamabad:

A senior Pakistani bureaucrat on Saturday alleged that the chief election commissioner and the chief justice have been concerned in ballot rigging within the latest election as he resigned from his put up, taking the “duty for all this wrongdoing”.

Former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha’s remarks got here amidst jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf get together started nationwide protests towards alleged rigging and stealing of its mandate within the February 8 elections.

Talking to reporters on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Liaquat Ali Chattha mentioned the candidates who have been “shedding” the elections “have been made to win”.

“I’m taking the duty for all this wrongdoing and telling you that the chief election commissioner and the chief justice are additionally utterly concerned on this,” he was quoted as saying by the Daybreak newspaper.

Liaquat Ali Chattha resigned from his workplace after “accepting duty” for manipulation of ballot outcomes, it mentioned.

Liaquat Ali Chattha mentioned “stabbing the nation in its again doesn’t let” him sleep.

“I ought to be punished for the injustice I’ve finished and others who have been concerned on this injustice also needs to be punished,” he mentioned.

The previous bureaucrat mentioned there was “strain” on him to the extent that he contemplated suicide however then resolved to current issues earlier than the general public.

“It’s my request to the complete forms to not do something unsuitable for all these politicians,” he mentioned.

In the meantime, the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) has strongly rejected the allegations Chattha has made towards the chief election commissioner.

In a press assertion, it mentioned, “The Election Fee of Pakistan strongly rejects the allegations levelled by the Commissioner Rawalpindi on the chief election commissioner or the election fee and no official of the election fee by no means issued any directions relating to altering the election outcomes to the Commissioner Rawalpindi.

“Neither is the commissioner of any division ever appointed as a DRO, RO or presiding officer, nor do they ever play a direct function within the conduct of elections.” Nonetheless, it mentioned that the matter can be investigated.

Earlier, Punjab caretaker Data Minister Amir Mir has additionally “rejected” the claims of manipulation of election outcomes made by Liaquat Ali Chattha.

Talking to Geo Information, he mentioned that Liaquat Ali Chattha had “not proven any proof” of the alleged tampering of ballot outcomes.

Noting that the commissioner was retiring on March 13, Mir mentioned, “I think about he is attempting to kick begin his political profession after he retires.” In addition to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), and others have additionally complained of rigging through the elections.

Unbiased candidates – a majority backed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf get together – received 93 of the 265 Nationwide Meeting seats that have been contested within the February 8 election.

Nonetheless, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s two foremost rivals seem on track to kind a coalition authorities after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s Pakistan Folks’s Get together (PPP) shaped a post-poll alliance on Tuesday.

The PML-N received 75 seats whereas the PPP got here third with 54 seats. The Muttahida Qaumi Motion Pakistan (MQM-P) has additionally agreed to assist them with their 17 seats.

To kind a authorities, a celebration should win 133 seats out of 265 contested seats within the 266-member Nationwide Meeting.

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