Jamaat-i-Islami Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has forfeited a Sindh Assembly seat over alleged rigging.

Addressing a press conference in Karachi, an angry Naeem said that his team worked on tallying the Form 45. He said that his votes were allegedly decreased by the Election Commission of Pakistan in the Form 47.

“Therefore, I give up this seat,” Rehman said, adding that “independent candidate Saif Bari won in a genuine manner, whose votes were reduced to 11,000 from 31,000”.

He further said that the votes for MQM were inflated from 6,000 to 20,000.

It should be mentioned that Naeem had won from PS-129 (Karachi Central VIII) with 26,296 votes, according to the provisional results released by the ECP. PTI-backed independent candidate Saif Bari had gathered 11,357, according to the ECP’s Form 47.