KARACHI July 30: The former city nazim, Niamatullah Khan, on Saturday rejected Sindh government’s proposal for hiring 3,000 private security guards for maintaining peace in the local body polls and termed it a “scientific design for poll rigging.”

“This proposal is tantamount to expressing no-confidence in the police, Rangers and Army,” he said.

“The electoral process will be hijacked and it will have no legal status if MQM’s activists are appointed at polling stations by portraying them as private security guards,” he warned. Terming the hiring of security guards as a “security risk”, he said voters and candidates would feel vulnerable in the presence of thousands of so-called security guards.—PPI