PTI showing fake Form 45: PMLN

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) leader Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Friday that some people were presenting fake Form 45, taken from the social media, and making unwarranted hue and cry over the issue.

Addressing a press conference along with another party leader Attaullah Tarar at the PMLN Secretariat here, she recalled that the PMLN mandate was stolen in 2018 by halting the Results Transmission System (RTS). She regretting that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was spreading Form 45 on the social media but not presenting those in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), as those were fake forms.

She said the PTI had completely been exposed after the results of general election 2024, as it was unable to present original Form 45, and only sharing private television channels’ screen shots.

The former information minister said, “Maulana Fazlur-Rehman is respectable for us, but I don’t see the chances of the JUIF [Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl] alliance with the PTI.” She said the PMLN was also preparing a white paper on elections and it would soon make it public. Attaullah Tarar alleged that the PTI was trying to derail democracy by making elections controversial. The Form 45 of the PTI reached the media and social media but could not reach the ECP, he added. He said nobody would be allowed to weaken democracy by using negative tactics.