Khawaja Asif claims Gen Bajwa gave ‘verbal consolation’ on complaining of irregularities in 2018 polls

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PML-N’s Khawaja Asif has recalled alleged irregularities during the 2018 general elections, claiming that the votes were counted after making the candidates’ polling agents leave the stations.

In a post on X, Asif said, “In the 2018 elections, we were handed results on a white paper without signatures instead of Form-45s. Our polling agents were made to leave before the vote-counting.”

He claimed he had “sent the results on the white paper without signatures” to former army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa but his “response was only verbal consolation”.

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