ISLAMABAD: PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub Sunday alleged that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was planning to appoint Grade-17 and 18 officers from the Executive, with less than one year in their retirement, as district returning officers (DROs) and AROs.
“This is a clear and blatant attempt to rig the upcoming general election on February 08. These very officers will be given a carrot of being looked after if they comply with the instructions of rigging, failing which, they will be shown the stick of retirement with no fringe benefits; a vast majority of these officers will take the option of being rewarded for executing rigging,” he alleged on X.
Omar said Pakistan was being pushed down a path from which democracy will never recover.
“We are heading into very dark days ahead as plans of pre-poll rigging and outright rigging the February 08, 2024 elections become apparent,” he wrote.
Awami National Party chief Senator Aimal Wali Khan was first speaker to raise the matter
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