In their eagerly anticipated final report, Commonwealth election monitors have criticized the 2024 general elections in Pakistan for its lack of fairness, pointing out that voters’ “fundamental political rights” were curtailed during the voting process.
The study, which was published on Tuesday, over 18 months after the elections, criticized the election night mobile phone service outage, stating that it “impacted the efficiency of delivering results and reduced the transparency of the process.”
In its 161-page report, the Commonwealth Observer Group stated that “the absence of digitally transmitted results forms expanded opportunities for the manipulation of Forms 45, 46, and 47.”
“It surveyed a wide range of documentation that appeared to indicate that,” the observer group added.
