LAHORE: The PML-Q has questioned the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) secretary’s statement that international forces want to sabotage the upcoming elections, urging the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) to take notice of this.

“The ECP secretary said during a briefing to the Senate Standing Committee on Interior that international forces want to sabotage the 2018 elections and he is ready to give an in-camera briefing about these dangers. The chief justice and caretaker government should take notice of this so that the people know about these dangers,” PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Husain said in a statement here on Sunday.

He said the ECP secretary should also divulge the facts to the people as to which international forces were involved in this alleged “conspiracy”. He apprehended that involving the army in the electoral process was an attempt to malign it.

Shujaat said such conspiring forces had also made inroads in political parties, which was not happening for the first time. “This conspiracy was also hatched in 2013 when the then US vice president Joe Biden, former secretary of state John Kerry and former secretary of defence Chuck Hagel visited Pervaiz Elahi at our house in Lahore and categorically stated that if your party won the election the US would not accept the results,” he added.

Published in Dawn, June 25th, 2018