“Polling is 10 days away but elections have almost already been rigged. Mandate of the people has been stolen and the seeds of controversial and manipulated power transfer sown already. Ground reality permits no other judgment,” says PPP secretary-general Farhatullah Babar.

The Pakistan Peoples Party says results of the general election have already been made controversial thanks to gerrymandering, leaving the July 25 polls just a search for a "Sanjrani" prime minister in a fragmented parliament.

"We will neither boycott elections nor allow these to be postponed under any pretext."

Babar also dismisses the proposition that resistance includes protest on the streets.

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