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Election Commission issued contempt notices to PTI leaders including Imran Khan

Contempt of the Election Commission for accusing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry during var...

Contempt of the Election Commission for accusing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry during various meetings, press conferences and several interviews and also notice of the Chief Election Commissioner for insulting Imran Khan. Been issued.



The Election Commission mentioned in the notice Imran Khan's various statements, speeches, baseless allegations leveled against him during press conferences and the words, false statements and fabricated allegations against Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja. Khan has been issued a notice to appear before the commission with his reply on August 30.

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According to the Election Commission spokesperson, the Election Commission has issued contempt notices to Imran Khan, Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry.

The notice says to appear in person or through a lawyer on August 30.

The Election Commission spokesperson said that the three PTI leaders made false allegations against the Election Commission and the Chief Election Commissioner during various meetings, press conferences and interviews, which damaged the reputation of the institution and the self-respect of the Election Commissioner.

He said that the allegations against the Election Commission and the Chief Election Commissioner have been made part of the notices.

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The notice says that according to PEMRA records, Imran Khan used ridiculous and unparliamentary language against the Election Commission in his speeches, press conferences and statements on May 11, May 16, June 29, July 19, 20 and August 7. , made derogatory statements and made baseless allegations which were broadcast live on mainstream TV channels.

Addressing Imran Khan, the Election Commission added in the notice that he addressed a rally in Bhakkar on July 12, which was telecast on ARY and also appeared in the daily Dawn the next day, in which he called the chief election. made insulting remarks against the Commissioner and made false allegations against him.

###Allegations on Election Commission

It should be noted that on May 11, former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, while talking to the media outside the Election Commission in Islamabad, said that the country's largest political party has zero confidence in the Election Commission. Imran Khan has said that the Chief Election Commissioner should take a position in the Muslim League (N), the honorable way was that the Election Commissioner himself would have resigned, but unfortunately the opposite happened.

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He had said that there is no representation of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in this Election Commission, it means no representation of 70% of the population of Pakistan, Election Commission has continuously become a party against the biggest political force of Pakistan.

After that, on May 16, while addressing the party's general meeting in Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, former Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the whole of Pakistan knows who the looters are, they are looters in front of the whole world, but the Election Commission cannot save them. Looking for points for

He said that even if these looters escape from the Election Commission, they will not escape from the people of Pakistan.

Then on June 29, former Information Ministers Fawad Chaudhry, Asad Umar and Shireen Mazari said in a press conference that Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja should resign immediately as he has lost his credibility. are

Shireen Mazari had said that the problem is that the CC is trying to change the constitution because the way they stopped the notification on certain seats, it shows that they are violating the rules.

Imran Khan addressed the public on July 18 and said that we have no faith in this Election Commissioner, he conducted the Senate election, the Supreme Court allowed you to confirm the vote of the Senate, the Election Commission and all political parties. The parties know that money is involved in the secret ballot of the Senate, this election commissioner did not follow it.

He had said that the amount of money spent in the previous Senate elections has never been spent in history. Yusuf Raza Gilani's son was caught while giving money, the same Election Commissioner investigated him, but it has been a year, so far no action has been taken. .

He had said that I am still saying that this country has only one way to conduct clean and transparent elections. In the presence of this Election Commissioner, clean and transparent elections can never happen. There is no trust in the Election Commissioner, the Election Commissioner should resign, you are a biased person.

In a video address to workers in Lahore on July 28, Chairman PTI Imran Khan said that we have fought the by-elections in 20 constituencies not only against these parties but against the administration, state machinery and the Election Commission.

They said that the Election Commission should punish them for the way they conducted this election, they used every tactic to defeat us.

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He had said that it usually happens that the Election Commission has a party favorite and works for them, but I have never seen such an Election Commission.

Imran Khan said that "This election commissioner has never seen such misconduct as Sikandar Sultan and it started from Daska by-election where the returning officer reported irregularities in 20 out of 400, he re-conducted the entire election".

On August 7 this month, Fawad Chaudhry, referring to the decision of the Islamabad High Court, said that in 2017, the Supreme Court issued an order in which it was said that we hope that the Election Commission collects foreign funding of all political parties. The judgment will be made so that people can compare how political parties are funded.

He had said that after that, Sardar Azhar of PTI submitted a petition in the Supreme Court that the funding of 19 political parties should be audited. According to the law of Pakistan, this audit has to be done every year, but the Election Commission did not follow it. Not imported, infer from this that the Election Commission is not only biased but also consists of incompetent people.

Similarly, even before this, Imran Khan has been criticizing the Chief Election Commissioner in public meetings and has called him a member of the Muslim League (N) family.

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