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| Will Army agree to hold fresh poll in Pakistan? | | | There is something fishy about the General elections that were completed recently in Pakistan. Though Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has not won any absolute majority but there are political parties, whose candidates were there in the contest who have alleged that the complete election process was rigged. And among those parties that complain of rigging include PML(N), MQM, PPP and other region groups. The PML(N) which was sure to win the General Election in Pakistan has threatened to boycott the National Assembly session. And the leaders of Muhajirs feel that the elections were engineered by the powerful Army in favour of Imran Khan and his party Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaaf, a Mohajir community leader in the US has alleged, demanding fresh polls under international supervision. Voice of Karachi chairman Nadeem Nusrat alleged that the Army establishment heavily used Pakistani judiciary and anti-corruption body NAB against Khan's political rivals and even jailed his main political foe Nawaz Sharif and his daughter just a few days before the polls.
Pakistani military establishment made the whole electoral process highly dubious right from the beginning of election campaign. Khan and his party Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) were treated as the chosen one and were offered special privileges, whereas his political rivals were subjected to a systematic campaign of hurdles, intimidation and defamation. Barring PTI every other political party in Pakistan is complaining of massive and organised rigging and have categorically rejected the results. Media reports are also pointing out to electoral fraud and now the reports of international observers and foreign media are also endorsing claims of massive electoral fraud in Pakistan. The report of the US State Department too has alluded to reports of widespread irregularities. Hundreds of thousands of angry voters are out in a number of areas protesting against this fraud but Pakistani media is not allowed to cover this mass agitation," Nusrat said. "This is a clear mockery of democracy, law and the Constitution of Pakistan. International community must not accept results of this engineered election and should exert pressure on Pakistan to hold fresh election under the United Nations supervision," the US-based Mohajir leader said.
Ehat has made Imran Khan a darling of the Army? The reasons are not known.But if the Army have supported his win the next Government, with Imran as its head, would have a smooth sailing. But it is doubtful where Imran would be able to promote cordial ties with India and stop export of terror to Jammu and Kashmir which is the kain precondition laid down by India for the purpose of resumption of dialoguer between Islamabad and New Delhi. Once Imar is sworn in as Prime Minister he may not be able to stop export of terror to Jammu and Kashmir that too under the guidance of the Army. Since the Army and other security agencies have deployed over six lakh soldiers for poll duty the PML(N) allegations that several thousand their polling agents were thrown out of their polling booths the allegations of election fraud seem to be confirmed. Will Pakistan hold fresh elections under the supervision of the UN. Certainly not because the Army have to decide on it. |
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