LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan says his party will prove that PML-N is ruling with fake mandate.

“More wickets will start falling in a fortnight with the announcement of Judicial Commission and election tribunal’s decisions”.

Speaking at a reception hosted by PTI Lahore here on Monday, Mr Khan also expressed serious concern over grouping and increasing differences in party ranks, saying in such a situation the PTI did not need any enemy.

Recalling his three-year-old statement that “party faces serious threat from within” Mr Khan warned that no indiscipline would be tolerated from now on. “One warning and then removal from the party will be the policy to ensure discipline,” he said.

Says five PTIs went for cantonment poll

Mr Khan said the party should unite under neutral Lahore district head Shafqat Mahmood and prepare for the upcoming local body elections. “The party should better give all local body seats to PML-N voluntarily if it goes for elections the way it did in Lahore Cantonment elections,” he said.

He reiterated that the PTI had contested general election against PML-N and Election Commission of Pakistan because they were hand in gloves. In Judicial Commission, he said the PTI was proving that the general elections were neither held according to law and constitution nor in a transparent manner. He said there was no record of some 25 million ballot papers.

The PTI chief said one Nadra chief said that votes could not be verified because magnetic ink was not used. While the new Nadra chief told the commission that Nadra did not possess equipment that could read magnetic ink. “In NA-122 constituency, I was defeated with 8,000 votes but around 92,000 votes in this constituency were not verifiable,” he added.

Mr Khan said the party was also proving that the Result Maintaining System (RMS), installed with UNDP’s Rs400 million funding was first slowed down and eventually stalled soon after the `historic speech’ by Nawaz Sharif.

Condemning that MQM got funding from Indian agency RAW, Mr Khan said that he had informed local news channels that MQM chief Altaf Hussain had made a speech in India in 2003 that creation of Pakistan was great injustice. He said Indian journalists had told him that RAW had put up Altaf Hussain’s posters on roads in Delhi.

Regretting that almost five PTIs were working in Lahore when it went for Lahore Cantonment polls, Mr Khan stressed that all leaders and workers should gather at one (PTI) platform and prepare for upcoming local polls. Unlike previous practice, he said, women workers should also be given tickets to contest elections.

PTI Lahore district organizer Shafqat Mahmood stressed that all leaders and workers should remain in one group i.e. Imran Khan group.

PTI leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Jahangir Tareen, Chaudhry Sarwar, Ejaz Chaudhry, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed, Abdul Aleem Khan, Mian Aslam Iqbal and others were also present on the occasion.

Published in Dawn, June 30th, 2015

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