Pakistan Elections: Rawalpindi Commissioner resigns after claiming 13 losing candidates ‘declared’ winners
Rawalpindi Commissioner was arrested on Feb 17
Pakistan Election Results 2024: The top bureaucrat of the garrison city of Rawalpindi resigned from his office on Saturday (Feb 17) after he confessed to having rigged the country'sFeb 8 national elections.Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha announced that he has resigned from top administrative post while speaking to reporters at the city's cricket stadium.
He claimed there was "pressure" on him to the extent that he contemplated suicide today but then resolved to present matters before the public. Shortly after his address to the reporters,there were reports that thecommissioner has been arrested but the claims were denied by police officers of Rawalpindi.
"I failed to conduct the election fairly. I am resigning from my post... I have committed a big mistake. We managed to declare 13 loser candidates as winner," Ali Chattha said.
Ali Chattha's accusations come ahead of a hearing in Pakistan's Supreme Court where a three-judge bench including the chief justice will decide ifthe recently held general elections will be declared null and void due to reports ofpoll rigging and deliberate delay in announcing the results by Pakistan's election commission.
Pakistan Election Commission's clarification
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The Election Commission of Pakistan rejectedAli Chattha'sallegations.
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"No official of the Election Commission issued any directions to Commissioner Rawalpindi. The commissioner of any division is neither a DRO [District Returning Officer] nor an RO [Returning Officer] neither are the Presiding Officer and they are not involved in the election process directly either. Despite this, the election commission will conduct an inquiry at the earliest into the matter," Pakistan's election commission said in an official statement.
In a statement, Rawalpindi Police denied the reports of the commissioner's arrest.
"Rawalpindi Police denies the news about the arrest of Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaquat Ali Chattha, Rawalpindi Police has not arrested Commissioner Rawalpindi," it wrote on X.
The Feb 8 general elections in Pakistan did not give a majority to any of the major parties.
Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) supported independent candidates secured 92 seats, while Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) secured 75 and 54 seats respectively.
The PML-N and the PPP have declaredformer prime minister Shehbaz Sharif as the leader of their alliance that is supposed to prove majority in Pakistan's National Assembly in the immediate future.
(With inputs from agencies)