ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif demanded on Thursday formation of a parliamentary commission to probe the alleged rigging in the General Election 2018.
“The opposition demands formation of a parliamentary commission,” Shehbaz said while speaking to media in Islamabad. “We have the right to raise our voices against rigging in elections.”
“Why did the result transmission system stop working at the last minute? Why were the polling agents thrown out of the polling stations,” he asked.
The PML-N had secured more seats in the Punjab Assembly. “Everyone knows why we weren’t able to form a government,” Shehbaz remarked.
The former Punjab chief minister also remarked that rather than exchanging congratulations, the opposition will ask for an investigation into the elections on the first session of the National Assembly.
The caretaker government had forwarded on Wednesday a summary to President Mamnoon Hussain requesting for the first NA session to be held between August 12 to August 14.
Shehbaz also shared that he held meetings with former premier Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar. The three PML-N leaders are completing their jail term after being convicted in the Avenfield properties case by an accountability court.
“Nawaz Sharif had returned to Pakistan for the nation,” Shehbaz said, adding that Nawaz has asked everyone to pray for him.
He further remarked that Nawaz was treated unfairly before and after elections.
Furthermore, Shehbaz also met with another party leader Hanif Abbasi at Adiala jail. Abbasi was sentenced to life in ephedrine quota case, just four days before the general election in the country.
