PTI leader Taimur Khan Jhagra has filed a complaint with the Election Commission of Pakistan against the district returning officer, returning officer and deputy commissioner of Peshawar for “tampering with papers” and “manipulating election results”.

Jhagra said he remained a “validly nominated candidate” for the PP-79 (Peshawar) seat as an independent candidate. His electoral symbol was ‘traffic light’.

In a post on X, he shared a copy of his complaint and wrote: “A grade 17 or grade 18 civil servant cannot simply fictitiously manufacture a public mandate.”

The complaint stated that PML-N candidate Jalal Khan indulged in firing at a polling station to “intimidate voters” but no action was taken. It added that after the polling, the Forms-45 were handed over to polling agents and they reflected Jhagra’s “landslide victory”.

However, he alleged, the results were “falsely changed”.