“The AJK election was a repeat of the 2018 general polls. Talking to Dawn, the PML-N lawmaker further said the party was considering moving courts and holding protests to challenge the rigging. “We wonder how the state functionaries have become personal servants of someone,” she said, and warned the people of AJK that the PTI government would make their lives miserable as they had done with the people of Pakistan.
“Ilyas, the special assistant to Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on the affairs related to business, investment and trade, extensively used the resources of the province to get the job done,” Ms Bokhari further said, adding that senior superintendents of police and deputy commissioners were tasked with getting the PTI candidates elected. The PML-N has also alleged that Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, who was in the run for the office of AJK prime minister, played a role in the rigging. The Punjab government also openly used its machinery to rig polling in nine constituencies falling in the province,” PML-N Punjab Information Secretary Azma Bokhari alleged. The Buzdar administration sent police, teachers, polling and other administrative staff to AJK from Punjab to ensure rigging in the polls. “July 25 will be remembered as the day of rigging by vote thieves in the country. The PML-N has also accused the PTI government in Punjab of using its machinery to rig polling on nine seats of the AJK polls falling in the province.
Questions being asked why Shehbaz stayed away from party’s election campaign The PTI clinched 25 seats, nine of them in Pakistan, while the PML-N got six seats including two in Pakistan, according to unofficial results.