The leadership of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has voiced serious concerns over the authenticity of the election results published by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). On Wednesday, PTI officials accused the ECP’s website of displaying manipulated Form-45s, which they claim have been altered to benefit PTI’s opponents, with some polling stations even recording voter turnouts exceeding 100 percent.
PTI Chairman Gohar Ali Khan, during a press conference, expressed the difficulty of moving past the elections when there are allegations of such widespread rigging. He was accompanied by notable PTI figures, Taimur Khan Jhagra and Salman Akram Raja, who also supported these claims.
Gohar Ali Khan announced the party’s intention to present evidence of vote tampering in constituencies where PTI-supported candidates lost due to last-minute changes in the results. This evidence, he said, would come from comparing the ECP’s version of Form-45 with the originals that all candidates received.
He stressed that the extent of the alleged poll fraud became more apparent after the ECP published these forms on its website. PTI’s chairman maintained that based on the “original” Forms-45, his party had won in 180 National Assembly seats during the general elections. Khan condemned the alleged tampering of results as an unprecedented act of election fraud in the nation’s political history.
