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PTI forms team to prepare poll rigging case

The Newspaper's Staff Reporter Published April 12, 2015
PTI leader Ishaq Khan Khakwani was appointed coordinator of task force which comprises 5 party leaders and 3 lawyers. -INP/File
PTI leader Ishaq Khan Khakwani was appointed coordinator of task force which comprises 5 party leaders and 3 lawyers. -INP/File

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) constituted on Saturday an eight-member task force to prepare and fight the party’s case before the judicial commission formed to investigate the charges of rigging in the 2013 general elections.

Senior PTI leader Ishaq Khan Khakwani has been appointed coordinator of the task force which comprises five party leaders and three lawyers, according to a notification issued by Secretary General Jahangir Khan Tareen.

The members of the task force are MNA Dr Arif Alvi, president of the PTI’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter Azam Khan Swati, chief of its Punjab chapter Ejaz Chaudhry, former candidate of the Punjab Assembly from Lahore Shoaib Siddiqui and lawyers Farrukh Dall, Qaiser Abbas and Anees Hashmi.

Published in Dawn, April 12th, 2015

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Ahmed USA
Apr 12, 2015 09:41am
All for it... if it helps in reforming electoral system...
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Rehan
Apr 12, 2015 09:43am
It is a mighty task to proove all those alligations.
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i'm always right
Apr 12, 2015 09:56am
If PTI brings electoral reform and I think they look more likely to now, this will be a historic change. I honestly didn't think they'd pull it off but kudos to them.
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khalq-e-khuda
Apr 12, 2015 11:01am
Justice Wajihuddin (r) should also have been part of this task force to give it added credibility.
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Shafique
Apr 12, 2015 11:09am
Good luck guys! work hard to prove your point.
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M. Asghar
Apr 12, 2015 01:11pm
With the PTI's decision , the things are moving in the right direction for the Commission on rigging
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Dr Khwaja Ajmal Waheed
Apr 12, 2015 02:16pm
Home work starts now?
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Dekh Magar Pyaar Se
Apr 12, 2015 03:20pm
Thought they already had all the proofs. NOW are they going to start looking for them? Classy!
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Dekh Magar Pyaar Se
Apr 12, 2015 03:21pm
@khalq-e-khuda No. He has been sidelined ever since he unearthed rigging in PTI's intraparty elections
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Imran
Apr 12, 2015 03:23pm
Even if judicial commission fails to unfold election rigging, at least a step has been taken to electoral reforms. Electronic voting system is a credible system. Pakistan after biometric verification installations should bring EVS system.
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SF
Apr 12, 2015 03:37pm
@Dekh Magar Pyaar Se If the purpose of the Judicial Commission was to improve the electoral process of the 2018 elections that purpose could have been achieved via the NA Committee on Electoral Reforms that PTI has boycotted for the last 8 months. However hard IK tries to give a positive spin to the widely expected JC verdict, he will never be able to save himself the embarrassment he brought on to himself through his Dharna blunder! In the annals of history he will be remembered as the man who attacked the Parliament House and PTV.
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SF
Apr 12, 2015 03:38pm
@Imran Khisiani Billi Khamba Nochay!
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SF
Apr 12, 2015 03:42pm
@Rehan What if PTI had managed to overthrow the govt through its Dharna push and then failed to prove the allegations in a court of law??
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fida sayani USA
Apr 12, 2015 04:02pm
So it took PTI almost 2 years to form this Task Force, which should have been done immediately after the election. This reflects on the immaturity of the democratic parties in Pakistan. This reminds me of my question I put to a PTI local leader some ten years ago. Does PTI has an education and health manifesto. the reply was let us first form the government and than we will thing about the manifestos.
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