The electoral commission issued warrants for the presiding officers of LG polls in six Karachi union committees on Tuesday.
The Pakistan Election Commission was considering a petition alleging irregularities in local government elections in Karachi union committees.
Because the presiding officers failed to attend in the hearing, the ECP issued warrants for their arrest.
“Presiding officials have been purposefully thwarted,” Jamaat Islami attorney Hassan Javed stated. “According to the results released by the presiding officers, Jamaat had won the poll,” JI’s counsel stated. “Returning cops have appeared, but presiding officers have been stopped,” he explained.
The JI counsel claimed that the ROs tampered with the results and proclaimed the government’s nominees the winners.
The ECP issued warrants of the presiding officers of UC-8 Mauripur Town, UC-8 Mirbahar Town, UC-7 Sultanabad, UC-5 Machhar Colony, UC-5 Shershah and Ward-1 of UC-4 of Chanesar Town.
A three-member bench of the election commission headed by the ECP’s Sindh member Nisar Durrani, heard the case.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja in initial proceedings vowed to rectify anomalies in results of the local government elections in Karachi and also promised to take action against those found responsible for committing alleged irregularities in election results.
