An election tribunal
probing rigging allegations in
NA-154, Multan constituency
announced on Wednesday its
verdict in favour of Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Jahangir
Tareen and ordered re-election.
Deseating Pakistan Muslim League—Nawaz
(PML-N) candidate Muhammad Siddique
Khan Baloch, election tribunal Justice Rana
Zahid Mehmood declared the poll result
null and void.
According to the short order, massive
irregularities were reported in the polls
with no mention of rigging, Express News
reported.
PTI leader Jehangir Khan Tareen – a
runner-up candidate at NA-154
constituency in the 2013 general elections –
had filed an application against the winning
candidate from PML-N, Siddique Baloch.
Speaking to the media, Tareen said the
verdict puts a big question mark on the
credibility of the entire 2013 general
elections.
“Imran Khan had asked for scrutiny of four
constituencies, decisions in three of them
have been overturned,” he said.
“We will contest and win the poll,” the PTI
leader added.
PTI chairman’s wife Reham Khan termed
the verdict a hat-trick for Imran.
The move comes days National Assembly
Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq was unseated by
an election tribunal of Punjab on Saturday
after it invalidated his election of NA-122
(Lahore-V) and ordered re-polling in the
constituency.
PML-N representative Sadiq had defeated
the PTI chairman in the May 2013 general
elections to clinch the seat. Imran,
however, challenged Sadiq’s victory.
The tribunal’s judge, Kazim Malik, also
ordered re-election in PP-147, where PML-
N’s Mohsin Latif had defeated PTI’s Shoaib
Siddiqui.
© Express tribune
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