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PTI claims that the elections were rigged. The Feb.08 vote, in which no single party won a clear majority, was marred by violence, communication blackouts and allegations by the party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan that the polls were rigged. However, the Election Commission of country denied this.
On Friday, the National Assembly of Pakistan passed a resolution condemning a US House of Representatives resolution calling for a probe of alleged voting irregularities in the South Asian nation’s February general elections. Shaista Malik – a lawmaker from the ruling party introduced this resolution.
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National Assembly passed this resolution despite objections from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. In a television speech, Shaista Malik stated that Pakistan won’t tolerate this interference in its internal affairs and called the resolution of the US “completely against the facts”
“The House further regrets that the US resolution does not acknowledge the free and enthusiastic exercise of the right to vote by millions of Pakistanis in the recently held General Election,” the resolution read.
Moreover, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch – Foreign Office Spokesperson separately stated that Pakistan “deeply regretted” the resolution.
saying it stemmed from an “inadequate and erroneous understanding of the political and electoral processes of Pakistan.”
“It is also an unsolicited interference in Pakistan’s domestic affairs,” she said. “We believe that bilateral relations between countries should be based on mutual respect and sovereign equality … The unsolicited interference from the US Congress is therefore neither welcome nor accepted.”
“We also hope that the US Congress would play a more constructive role in strengthening Pakistan-US bilateral relations by focusing on avenues of collaboration for the mutual benefit of the relations,” the spokesperson concluded.
