By Former PPP senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar has urged the election tribunals to restore the mandate of the people of Islamabad to their elected representatives for NA-48 and NA-47.
In his response to the election tribunal’s notice, the former senator supported the election petition filed by PTI candidate Syed Ali Bukhari. According to his reply submitted by Faisal Hussain Advocate, Khokhar said that he contested the February 8 general elections from NA-48 as an independent candidate and got 18,572 votes.
He added that the PTI candidate 75,166 votes, whereas PML-N’s Raja Khurram Shahzad Nawaz got only 31,153 votes.
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He expressed his displeasure that “the mandate of the people of Islamabad was altered in an illegal, unlawful, and wrong manner by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the returning officer (respondents No. 1 and 2 in the case) to benefit the PML-N candidate.”
Khokhar further said that the “ECP miserably failed to perform its constitutional duty to hold elections in a transparent and just manner.”
The former senator claimed that the results were “changed after the polling hours when Respondent No 2 banned representatives of the answering respondent from entering his camp office in Chak Shahzad.”
Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar said that according to Forms-45 from polling agents, the petitioner received 75,166 votes, while respondent No. 3 secured around 31,153 votes.
However, the petitioner discovered on February 9 that respondent No. 3 was declared the winner of NA-48 by the Returning Officer, contradicting the polling results.
