Pakistan Today (Lahore)

Maryam accuses PTI of being involved in ‘very discipline­d rigging’

- Islamabad staff report

Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawa­z (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz has continued to carry the baton over the alleged claims of interferen­ce in the NA-75 Daska by-polls, and how now accused the ruling party and agencies of being involved in the socalled conspiracy.

“Agencies, which come under Imran Khan, the vote thief, were involved [in the rigging],” she claimed while speaking to media persons in Lahore on Wednesday. The PML-N VP warned that she would “expose the names” if the government does not come clean.

A day earlier, she took to Twitter and claimed that she had the names of two people, adding that the staff of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had been abducted and kept in one place all night. The results were changed in the presence of leading members of the ruling Pakistan Tehreeke-Insaf (PTI).

Since the elections occurred, Maryam Nawaz has been untiring in her pursuit of a recount, and during today’s presser, recalled the videos that she had shared on Twitter which purportedl­y showed the closure of polling stations “by design”. She claims that some stations were purposeful­ly closed for nearly six hours.

“When [they saw] that despite this historic, blatant and naked rigging, PML-N was still in the lead, they kidnapped 20 officials in the garb of fog,” she said. “This is not me saying this, Election Commission’s press release is also saying it. It said that when they returned, results were altered.”

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