SUKKUR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf workers took to the streets, staged rallies and took out processions in several Sindh towns on Saturday in protest against ‘election fraud’ in Feb 8 polls.

In Sukkur, the PTI worker gathered at Dolphin Chowk holding placards and raising charged slogans against alleged rigging in elections across Pakistan.

The protesters’ leaders said that their candidates were defeated under a conspiracy. The party had clearly won 180 National Assembly seats but results were changed forcibly in a bid to declare favorable candidates as winners, they said.

In Jacobabad, PTI workers staged a procession that started its march from Shaheed Allah Bakhsh Soomro Park and reached local press club where they held a sit-in.

The protesters’ leaders condemned rigging and election fraud and deman-ded the PTI founder must be released immediately.

In Kandhkot-Kashmore, the party workers held a demonstration at Insaf House where local leaders said the PTI candidates were leading the poll results by 60,000 to 70,000 but their results were changed to show them defeated.

They said that Rawalpindi commissioner’s confession had vindicated their stance and demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) return the seats to the PTI.

In Nawabshah, PTI workers and supporters held a demonstration at press club chowk where the protesters led by Inayat Ali Rind who lost PS-37 said that rigging was conducted in connivance with polling staff and results.

In Sanghar, PTI workers held a demonstration outside the press club where they said that they saluted Pir Pagara who spoke truth about the PTI founder.

They demanded the ECP issue results as per Form-45.

In Naushahro Feroze, PTI workers led by Imtiaz Rajpar, Iftikhar Sher and others held a demonstration outside Padidan press club.

They accused the ECP of manipulating results to declare PTI-backed independents as losers whereas they had won the seats. They demanded courts take notice of large-scale rigging.

In Hyderabad, PTI workers held protest against rigging outside local press club.

Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2024