LAHORE: Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said on Saturday that 30,000 bogus votes had been detected in the bags during the inspection of NA-122 polling record.

Talking to reporters before his departure for London, Mr Khan said during the recount the forms 14 and 15 were found missing in 100 bags. Besides, three polling stations of the NA-122 (Lahore) had the record of NA-124, he added.

In NA-122, Mr Ayaz Sadiq, who is now the National Assembly speaker bagged over 93,000 votes, beating PTI chairman Imran Khan who got over 84,000 votes, by a margin of some 9,000. Khan had challenged the result in the election tribunal.

The PTI said Mr Sadiq had been hiding behind a court stay order for the last one-and-a-half years in order to avoid votes audit in the constituency.

“The record of returning officers and counterfoil sheets was not matching at 10 polling stations,” he said, adding a thorough investigation would expose the “massive rigging”.

Mr Khan reiterated his party’s demand for constitution of a judicial commission to probe in the the alleged rigging in 2013 elections.

Published in Dawn, January 4th, 2015

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