Karachi: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) faced a set back today as Sindh High Court (SHC) rejected its petition against a victory of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate in the by-elections on NA-237 Malir, four days ago on October 16.
The SHC hearing the PTI petition said that the party should go to a election tribunal.
The counsel of the PTI apprised the court that he had written three letters to the election tribunal but it didn’t heed to any single one.
Earlier, the PTI Sindh president Ali Zaidi had challenged the NA-237 by-election result in the Sindh High Court (SHC) alleging that massive rigging was done during the by-poll at the seat.
The workers of the PPP caste ‘fake’ votes during Sunday’s by-poll, the plea said while the SHC had been pleaded to order an impartial inquiry into the matter.
On Sunday, October 16, PPP candidate Abdul Hakeem Baloch by taking 32,567 votes had defeated former prime minister Imran Khan who secured 22, 493 votes in Karachi’s NA-237 Malir constituency, as per unofficial and unconfirmed results from all 194 polling stations.
The PTI chief, holding a presser on the next day of the by-election demanded the ECP to hold re-election in Karachi’s NA-237 constituency, accusing PPP of ‘rigging’.
He said that his party had evidence that the PPP openly indulged in the rigging. “Sindh’s election commissioner is on the provincial government’s payroll and we have already approached the judicial council against him,” he told THE media.
