ISLAMABAD, May 6: The Pakistan People‘s Party has apprised the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) of ‘rigging’ in the April 30the referendum and reiterated the party’s stand that Gen Musharraf should return to barracks handing over powers to the Chief Justice of Pakistan.

PPP’s human rights cell coordinator Fauzia Wahab, in a letter addressing Ms Robinson at the UNHCHR, says the estimates and assessments of the Peoples Party about the referendum have turned out to be correct.

“ Third referendum of the fourth military regime has turned to be as fraudulent as the earlier referendums were”, she comments.

“ We demand that in the interest of the country, the military should go back to barracks without delay and hand over power to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, under whose supervision free and transparent polls be held within three months”, she adds.

Fauzia Wahab said that as per expectations the Election Commission has announced that Gen Pervez Musharraf won the referendum by 90 per cent votes of the total electorate. Though, she said, it was the referendum in which no voters‘ list and the size of the electorate were unknown.

“ The result had to be what had been announced by the Election Commission, whose chairman is Mr Justice Irshad Hassan Khan (Rtd), the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who validated the military take over and provided judicial protection to the misdeeds of the military rule”.