October 12, 2002	Saturday	Sha'aban 5, 1423

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) rejected on Friday the results of Thursday’s elections, charging that they were engineered.

“It is all arranged and pre-planned,” the party’s Senior Vice President Syed Zafar Ali Shah said.

“It is not a public mandate and it does not represent the choice of the Pakistani nation,” he told AFP.

Zafar Ali Shah, who lost two seats in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, said he would have accepted defeat if polls had been fair.

“It was arranged by the state and we are not convinced.”

Zafar Ali Shah said PML-N had taken part in the polls instead of boycotting them only to continue our struggle.

He alleged that the government “not only rigged the elections but it also rigged the two-party system which had emerged in the country after a long time.”

He challenged the shock landslide victory by the MMA.

Zafar Ali Shah said he was “as sure as death” that the MMA enjoyed government backing.

“People will see that MMA stands for the military-mulla alliance,” he said.