The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has declared that it will abstain from the April 2 Senate elections in Sindh due to extensive alleged manipulation.
At a news conference on Sunday in Karachi, PTI leader Haleem Adil Sheikh declared, “Senate elections are being won through rigging.”
Referring to the claims that PTI-backed candidates were forced to lose by allegedly manipulating the election results in Form 47, he stated, “Those who won elections as per Form 45 are not part of the Sindh Assembly.”
He claimed that although six PTI-backed candidates were running for the Sindh Senate seat, they had abstained from the polls.
“There will be a mass burial for the current administration.In the general elections, we got 180 seats, but the majority of them were taken away, he claimed.
Fourteen candidates from the province withdrew their nomination papers on Wednesday in order to run in the Senate elections. The Pakistan Peoples Party is expected to win one of the two Senate seats designated for women without opposition following the contenders’ withdrawal.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has only one candidate, whereas the PPP has fielded eleven.
The PPP candidates are: Sarmad Ali, Ashraf Ali Jatoi, Dost Ali Jessar, Rubina Qaimkhani, Zamir Hussain Ghumro, Poonjo, Qurat-ul-Ain Marri, Syed Masroor Ahsan, Jeean Khan Sarfaraz Rajar, Nadeem Ahmed Bhutto, and Dost Ali Ahsan.
