KARACHI
\nThe Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded of the Chief Election Commissioner to declare the mayoral election in Karachi as void and issue a new schedule. \u201cThe Sindh government abducted 29 PTI council members to restrain them from casting vote in the election,\u201d JI spokesperson, wrote in a letter to the CEC.
\n\u201cThe election commission should cancel this \u2018fraud exercise\u2019 and issue a new schedule for polls,\u201d JI letter read. \u201cIt is prime objective of the election commission to hold fair and transparent election, but the electoral body was utterly failed in it,\u201d according to the letter.
\n\u201cWe intimated the electoral body about unconstitutional and undemocratic steps of the Sindh government, but the ECP remained a silent spectator,\u201d JI letter read. \u201cThe doors of the hall were closed at the time of the mayor\u2019s election, while 29 PTI members were stopped from casting vote after abducting them from homes,\u201d JI spokesperson complained in letter.
\n\u201cIt would have prudent to initiate polling after completion of attendance, unfortunately it didn\u2019t happen. The election commission didn\u2019t play its due role and the mandate was killed ruthlessly,\u201d letter read.
\n\u201cThe majority was turned into minority and a true mandate was encroached forcefully with betrayal,\u201d JI said. \u201cThis encroachment of the mandate will not be better for the city and the country,\u201d JI warned.
\nPakistan People\u2019s Party\u2019s (PPP) Barrister Murtaza Wahab elected Karachi mayor after securing 173 through a show of hand, according to unofficial and unconfirmed results. JI\u2019s candidate Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman secured 160 votes, as per the unconfirmed and unofficial results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACHI The Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded of the Chief Election Commissioner to declare the mayoral election in Karachi as void and issue a new schedule. \u201cThe Sindh government abducted 29 PTI council members to restrain them from casting vote in the election,\u201d JI spokesperson, wrote in a letter to the CEC. \u201cThe election commission should cancel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n