TIMERGARA, Dec 23: The Jamaat-i-Islami has taken a timely decision to boycott polls because the elections will be rigged and no political party will be in a position to form federal or provincial governments on its own, say leaders of the JI in Lower Dir district.

Addressing party workers at a reception held in Talash on Sunday, they said the JI had won all provincial and National Assembly seats in Lower Dir in 2002 and the seats were virtually for the party’s taking but the party had sacrificed its seats in the best national interest.

District amir Maulana Ahmad Ghafoor, ex-MPA Muzaffar Saeed, Sahibzada Yaqub and Maulana Mohammad Nabi addressed the gathering.

After the party, bundles of posters, banners and pamphlets asking people to boycott the fraud elections were distributed amongst party workers.

Later, Maulana Ahmad Ghafoor said that committees had been formed to mobilise the people to boycott the polls.

He said the Jamaat’s secretary-general Munawar Hassan would visit Talash and Timergara on Dec 28.