ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Former Karachi city nazim Niamatullah Khan on Friday met the visiting Commonwealth monitoring team and apprised it of the complaints about pre-poll rigging in the local body elections with particular reference to Karachi.

The meeting was arranged on the desire of the six-member Commonwealth mission that was in the federal capital for monitoring local body polls and submit a report on transparency, fairness and independence of the elections.

Mr Khan, who was accompanied by MMA MNAs Dr Farid Ahmed Paracha and Mian Mohammad Aslam, informed the mission that the provincial government led by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was involved in electoral irregularities by utilizing all the state resources to manipulate the elections.

Talking to this reporter, Mr Khan said that the members of the monitoring team said that they would visit the provincial capitals and cities on the polling day and prepare a report to submit it to the Commonwealth and the government of Pakistan.