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REFERENCE Nadeem F. Paracha’s article ‘Lessons from PS-114’ (July 16).
Saeed Ghani is an ethnic Sindhi and not a Mohajir as called by him. Mr Ghani’s father, late Usman Ghani , was also an ethnic Sindhi and was president of the MCB Staff Union for more than three decades.
The PPP had never won from this constituency; it was a musical chair type of seat , which was won by the MQM and by Irfanullah Marwat, in turn. This time the entire government machinery, including the police force, were employed, and polling stations were shifted to far-off places to discourage MQM voters and other parties from going there. Hence the result in favour of the PPP.
Rafi Ahmed
Karachi
Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2017
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Jul 27, 2017 08:15am
Why such naked allegations against PPP Govt plus ECP are given space in Dawn whereas I have never noted any such allegation published in this paper against PML-N or MQM.
Isnt this a clear bias against a political party?
Moreover, this issue is to be lawfully resolved at Election Tribunal concerned if the aggrieved party or a voter like the writer of this opinion may like because only Election Tribunal is the right forum to decide what actually happened in Saeed Ghani's Constituency from where he won...
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