Tomorrow, Imran Khan’s party will stage demonstrations against suspected election tampering across Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the political party of former prime minister Imran Khan, declared nationwide demonstrations on Saturday over what it described as extensive electoral manipulation.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on social media platform X has called for protests against “the unprecedented, massive, brazen rigging in General Elections 2024, where PTI’s win of 180 National Assembly seats & a two-third majority in Parliament, was cut down to half by the illegitimate, fascist regime.” The post was made recently.

PTI leader and attorney Saif said that a team from the party met with JUI-F chairman Fazlur Rehman at the request of party founder Imran Khan, who wanted to get in touch with all political groups that felt wronged by the way the elections were handled, Dawn reported.
“PTI has announced that we will do a country-wide protest on Saturday and this process will continue because the JUI has also expressed doubts about the elections and their results and rejected them,” Rehman told Dawn.

Meanwhile, the former prime minister of Pakistan, speaking from behind bars, urged the US to speak out against the lack of transparency surrounding the general elections. “America acts like the voice of democracy in the whole world, but both the US and Europe have maintained silence on rigging in the elections in Pakistan,” the prime minister said in the message, according to Saama TV.
Samaa TV stated that Khan’s remarks from behind bars were delivered by attorney Muhammad Ali Saif. He said that the US had installed corrupt individuals as leaders and had favored and imposed tyrants.

John Kirby, the White House’s Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council, said at a press conference on Thursday that the US is “very closely” monitoring the situation and is “concerned” about claims pertaining to voting suppression and intimidation coming out of Pakistan.

Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the US Department of State, demanded a probe into claims of vote-rigging in Pakistan’s general elections on February 8 on Wednesday.
Congressmen from the US Congress denounced the use of political violence, mobile phone service outages, and other restrictions earlier on February 9 during Parkistan’s general elections.