KARACHI: An election tribunal on Monday issued notices to respondents on a petition of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leader Dr Farooq Sattar challenging the results of NA-245.

In the petition filed through his lawyer, Dr Sattar requested the tribunal to suspend the notification of victory of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Aamir Liaquat Hussain, the returned candidate from NA-245 (Karachi East-IV), till the decision on his petition.

The election tribunal headed by Justice Omer Sial of the SHC issued notices to the Election Commission of Pakistan, the PTI MNA and other respondents for Oct 19.

The MQM-P leader cla­imed that he had attached solid evidence with his petition about alleged rigging in his constituency and claimed that about 22,000 ballot papers were missing and evidence in this regard was available in Form-46.

Dr Sattar also alleged that his polling agents had been forced out of polling stations before the vote counting process started and that the presiding officers had not provided Form-45 to them.

Published in Dawn, October 9th, 2018