always thought there was something funny about this result where Saad was trailing with a huge deficit and than suddenly won the seat. Maybe IK is right, there was heavy rigging. Commission finds irregularities in NA-125 election
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PML-N MNA Saad Rafique. — APP file photo
LAHORE: A commission appointed to examine polling bags and other records in NA-125, Lahore, has found several irregularities in the election, which was won by Khwaja Saad Rafiq of the PML-N.
Lawyer Hamid Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, who was the runner-up in the constituency, had challenged the result before an election tribunal and sought to inspect the polling record.
The hearing of the petition was transferred to Faisalabad after the PTI candidate showed distrust in the presiding officer of the Lahore election tribunal. The Faisalabad tribunal appointed a retired district and sessions judge, Sheikh Mohammad Tareef, as head of the commission, which submitted its report to the tribunal on Sept 29.
The petitioner’s side will carry out cross-examination on Saturday (Oct 4).
The head of the commission said in his report: “After examining each and every polling bag and minutely viewing the state of affairs carried out in this constituency, there is gross mismanagement and the polling personnel carried out the election process clumsily for reasons best known to them.
“The polling bag of each polling station shows that the process of the election carried out is the result of gross mismanagement.
“There were 265 polling stations and for each station one polling bag was assigned, but assistant returning officer (ARO) produced 253 polling bags out of that a number of them were related to provincial assembly constituency. Thereafter 179 more polling bags were produced before the commission making a total 432 polling bags.
“The available polling bags contained waste and litter having a smeary dirt and mixture of disagreeable to the sight that reflected carelessness of polling personnel.
“In fact each polling bag of entire constituency is in the condition of such a mess that it can be said to be a trash and rubbish for reasons best known to the polling personnel.”
On close examination of bags, the report said, the commission found worthless things in a heap of litter and nothing was left for inspection.
It said that the polling staff failed to record what sort of articles were received from the returning officer (RO) and which articles had been consumed on the day of election. Polling bag of each polling station did not carry the essential record. The RO had not performed his duty regarding issuance of the inventory of articles to each polling station.
The report said that in the absence of inventory record, the evaluation of the ballot papers counted by the polling officer could not be held. Since everything had been done clumsily, no record was recovered from the dirt and litter of each polling bag as the polling personnel did not perform duty properly.
“Even voter list was not found from a large number of the polling bags. And where voter list was found the ballot papers were not tallied with the number of votes.
“The record of invalid votes was not found in any polling bag of the constituency, therefore, the question of recording any finding about rejection of votes did not arise.”
*Published in Dawn, October 3rd, 2014
Re: Commission finds irregularities in NA-125 election
Uncle my friends voted in NA 125 even saad`s wife she entered in female section threaten n kick out everyone k koi balay ko vote nhi daly ga. My friend was wearing pti flag aur bhi ladies thi tu they started abusing these ladies why are you wearing pti flag.
Re: Commission finds irregularities in NA-125 election
Uncle my friends voted in NA 125 even saad`s wife she entered in female section threaten n kick out everyone k koi balay ko vote nhi daly ga. My friend was wearing pti flag aur bhi ladies thi tu they started abusing these ladies why are you wearing pti flag.
you mean they were inside polling station? if yes, what were they doing there? if you know, no one but the staff of ECP and particular voter (turn by turn) are allowed in there... and none of the staff of ECP is allowed to wear any party's flag or by any mean show any affiliation to any political party... strange thing you are telling here.
Re: Commission finds irregularities in NA-125 election
you mean they were inside polling station? if yes, what were they doing there? if you know, no one but the staff of ECP and particular voter (turn by turn) are allowed in there... and none of the staff of ECP is allowed to wear any party's flag or by any mean show any affiliation to any political party... strange thing you are telling here.
Vote dalnay nhi gai line mei room k bahir they wete wearing green n red dresses or white dresses wth green n red duppatas n saad rafique wife lost her mind n started shouting why are you wearing pti flags.
Re: Commission finds irregularities in NA-125 election
saare parliament ke mimbaraan parliament ke taqaddus aur legally elected government ke da've karte haiN magar jab election meN fraud huaa aur fraud ke zariiye yeh log parliament meN aaye to phir kahaN kaa taqaddus aur kahaN kii legality?
parliamaan meN jab Ghalaazat ghus aayii ho to uskii safaaii kar ke use paak kiyaa jaanaa hii sab se aham aur awwal-tareen kaam hai.
Re: Commission finds irregularities in NA-125 election
IK's demand to reopen four constituencies including this one was valid. There are suspicious elements there. But the problem is, unless and until you get election reforms, there'll always be rigging in few constituencies. There is not 1 election in pak yet where there was 100% transparency and same will happen again if we dont improve the system.
Re: Commission finds irregularities in NA-125 election
Now we know exactly why Nawaz Leeg was hell bent on not opening up the four constituencies and why Saad Rafique was the one who used wail to most.
I can't believe this shameless sociopath has the nerve to lecture people about democracy when his polling bags are filled with dirt and rubbish instead of oh so 'majority' votes in favour of him. Dirt and rubbish in the polling boxes, dirt and rubbish in the parliament. Yep, perfectly explains the democracy in Pakistan. I'm so glad ECP has finally found the courage to expose these criminals and anti democracy charlatans. I can believe we used to have Nawaz Sharif fanboys arguing that they are that Saad Rafique has won fair and square and there should not be any judicial inquiry in his constituency because their servant and his mates voted for him! utter stupidity.
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Now this is the true value of people's vote in the democracy of Pakistan. Why should they come out and vote if their vote is meaningless? And NA 125 being the poshest area of Lahore, yet such shocking level of corruption, rigging and misconduct took place. Then they bloody wonder why the educated and affluent classes are so angry with these Patwaris? You criminals stole their votes, that's why, and they won't back down until you give them their stolen rights back.
