Imran Khan announces complete boycott of Jang Group

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Re: Imran Khan announces complete boycott of Jang Group

@krash

The allegation of rigging against GEO is so ridiculous. In the US projected winners are announced often immediately after poll closing.
It was NS who chose to make his victory speech at 11PM. His opponents didn’t protest. Geo wasn’t the only channel that carried the speech. Everyone did.
IKs allegation make no sense. Especially since GEO was so pro-IK throughout the runup to the elections.

IK is on solid ground when he talks about rigging at the polling stations. That needs to be investigated and he is right to protest. But dragging GEO into this makes no sense. And the timing is so suspicious. Aligns him perfectly with ISI’s anti-GEO campaign. Very disappointing.

In US, projected winners are announced based on verified exit polls. In Pakistan, exit polls are not conducted at all polling stations. Moreover, there is so much pre and post poll rigging that exit polls usually dont mean anything. In other words, if the end result has already been ‘agreed upon’, then you can engineer the exit poll results to say whatever you want.
NS gave his speech on his own, and it was telecast on many channels, but Geo was perhaps the only channel to officially agree with it and declare PMLN as the winner, even though less than 30% of the votes had been officially counted overall.
Geo wasnt pro IK. It was pro publicity, and was riding IKs wave…something all media houses do.