{"id":60110,"date":"2024-02-14T19:50:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/more-balochistan-parties-decry-rigging-in-worst-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T19:50:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:50:04","slug":"more-balochistan-parties-decry-rigging-in-worst-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/more-balochistan-parties-decry-rigging-in-worst-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"More Balochistan parties decry rigging in \u2018worst elections\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>QUETTA: Two of Balochistan\u2019s political parties have decided to launch a protest movement against the alleged election rigging, describing the Feb 8 polls as the worst in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Pashtoonkhwa National Awami Party (PkNAP) Chairman Khushhal Khan Kakar and Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) President Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti told separate press conferences on Tuesday that their parties would launch a peaceful protest against the \u201crigged\u201d elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kakar pledged to expose those involved in rigging and announced that from Wednesday (today), highways leading from Quetta to Karachi, Dera Ismail Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Chaman and other cities would be closed for an indefinite period if the results of rigging were not corrected within two days.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kakar claimed that he was elected to the National Assembly with a significant margin against his rival, but the results were later allegedly changed through postal ballots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote-level-1\">\n<p>PkNAP, JWP plan to block highways leading to Quetta<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA pre-election and post-election rigging conspiracy was hatched against our party to block its way to the parliament and the provincial assembly,\u201d he said. He said rigging had been started with the delimitation of constituencies and \u201cofficials known to be against us were posted as returning and district returning officers who played a role in rigging the polls\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kakar also accused the deputy commissioner of Qila Saifullah of receiving bribe for playing his role in changing election results. He said Quetta\u2019s deputy commissioner had threatened a PkNAP leader, Nasrullah Zerey, saying, \u201cLet\u2019s see how you win elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to all Baloch, Pashtoon and Hazara nationalist party leaders, in\u00ad\u00adcluding Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Chairman Mehmood Khan Ach\u00ad\u00adakzai, to join hands with PkNAP in the movement launched against the alleged rigging.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1813196\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He mentioned irregularities in NA-251, NA-262, NA-265 and NA-263. He also condemned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1813196\">firing<\/a> on Mohsin Dawar and demanded the arrest of attackers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shahzain slams \u2018joke\u2019 with people<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JWP President Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti told a presser that Feb 8 was the blackest day in the country\u2019s election history, especially for Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you wanted to bring people of your own choice, we should have been told beforehand so that we could have saved the people from being harassed,\u201d Mr Bugti said. He alleged that his party\u2019s mandate was stolen through a conspiracy. \u201cAround 80 polling stations of Dera Bugti were robbed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said a candidate from Dera Bugti had 11 votes in a polling station till night on election day, but in the morning, his votes reached 1,112 in the same polling station. \u201cThe state of Pakistan has played a joke with the people of Balochistan in the name of the election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeaceful protest is our constitutional right. Protests will be recorded on the national highways of the province on Feb 15 (Thursday),\u201d he decclared, demanding that Nadra verify votes cast at polling stations of Dera Bugti.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUETTA: Two of Balochistan\u2019s political parties have decided to launch a protest movement against the alleged election rigging, describing the Feb 8 polls as the worst in the country\u2019s history. Pashtoonkhwa National Awami Party (PkNAP) Chairman Khushhal Khan Kakar and Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) President Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti told separate press conferences on Tuesday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/02\/1409455413dbe6b.jpg?r=094826","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}