Imran Khan's party to stage sit-in across country on March 2 against poll 'rigging'

Pakistan’s incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan’s party announced a nationwide protest on Saturday against alleged electoral rigging in the February 8 elections that has prevented the party from returning to power.

Addressing the media after a meeting with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan at Rawalpindi’s high-security Adiala jail, where he is currently detained, the party’s Secretary General and prime ministerial candidate, Omar Ayub, reiterated claims of “widespread” rigging in the polls.

Ayub stated that PTI would join other political parties in staging nationwide protests against the alleged electoral rigging, as reported by Geo News.

“Our seats were stolen with just a stroke of pen. The people gave the mandate to the former PTI chairman. Nation’s mandate and our seats have been attacked,” Ayub said.

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He said the PTI would protest in courts and assemblies across the country. “Ours is the fight of truth,” Ayub said, adding that the party has nominated Amir Dogar and Junaid Khan for the post of National Assembly speaker and deputy speaker, respectively.

Separately, speaking to media outside the Adiala jail, PTI’s central leader Sher Afzal Marwat said Imran Khan wants the nation to take to the streets on March 2 against alleged rigging in the elections, the Dawn newspaper reported.

With inputs from PTI.