RAJANPUR, Jan 14: Former premier Balakh Sher Mazari and ex-Punjab assembly deputy speaker Shaukat Hussain Mazari have in advance submitted 362 ballot papers to the returning officer after filling them in their favour.

This was alleged by union nazim Syed Zahid Hussain Shah, nazim Kanwer Ahmed Akhtar and former Punjab bar council member Malik Manzoor Ahmed while informing reporters here on Monday.

They claimed that the former premier, the ex-PA deputy speaker, NA-175 candidate Doost Muhammad Mazari, district naib nazim Sardar Shamsher Khan Mazari, Rojhan nazim Athar Khan Mazari and other sardars with the abetment of Rojhan postmen Iqbal and Hazoor Bakhsh took 362 ballot papers from the post office to the bungalow of Shaukat Mazari.

Under duress, they got the ballot papers filled from some government employees in their favour while the rest were filled by them with fake thumb impressions.

They further alleged that the filled ballot papers were sent to Rajanpur where postmaster Abdul Ghafoor Bhatti, who was in cahoots with them, had compiled a list for submitting it to the RO office. Since there was no stamp of post office on ballot papers, Bhatti again sent them to Rojhan for getting them stamped.

On Jan 12, Shaukat Mazari summoned postmen Iqbal and Hazoor Bakhsh to his house where they did the needful in the presence of the postmaster. Later, both the postmen submitted the stamped ballot papers to the RO office, they said.

When contacted, postmaster Abdul Ghafoor Bhatti said that his superintendent Malik Sharjil had asked him: “My friend is coming to you and his work should be done according to his wish.”