ISLAMABAD: Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed called for Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign after it was established that there was discrepancy in NA-68 election results, a seat from which the PM win.
“There is difference of thousands of votes in NA-68, where Prime Minister Sharif had won,” Rasheed said.
He demanded the prime minister step down from his office.
The ECP said that the difference in vote count at a polling station could be due to typing error.
ECP’s Additional Secretary Sher Afgan said that 7, 000 ballot papers were not even available at the polling station. “It seems to be a typing error,” he said.
It is pertinent to note here that Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) today concluded its probe into allegations that polling for NA-68, Sargodha had been rigged.
According to the probe, on a polling station number for the constituency, Nawaz Sharif secured 779 out of the total 1500 votes polled but these were written as 7,879.
A private news channel quoting sources reported that the probe suggested a huge difference between the results given by the returning and presiding officers.
The ECP has said that the differences in the numbers of votes was due to a typing mistake.
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