{"id":26234,"date":"2024-02-17T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=26234"},"modified":"2024-02-17T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:11:57","slug":"election-commission-of-pakistan-firmly-denies-accusations-made-by-commissioner-rawalpindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/election-2024\/election-commission-of-pakistan-firmly-denies-accusations-made-by-commissioner-rawalpindi\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission of Pakistan firmly denies accusations made by Commissioner Rawalpindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Commissioner Rawalpindi&#8217;s claims have been categorically refuted by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecp.gov.pk\/\"> Election Commission of Pakistan<\/a> (ECP), which asserts that it never gave him instructions to rig elections.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/peaceful-protests-today-by-pti-in-response-to-rigging-in-elections.html\">\u201cPeaceful Protests\u201d today by PTI in response to Rigging in Elections<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaqat Ali Chatta resigned from his position after confessing to election tampering in the Rawalpindi division.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for the ECP stressed that the commissioner was not given orders from above to rig the results of the election or tamper with the voting process.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/commissioner-rawalpindi-liaqat-ali-chatta-resigns-over-election-rigging.html\">Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaqat Ali Chatta resigns over election rigging<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Rawalpindi&#8217;s assertions are further undermined by the spokesperson&#8217;s emphasis that divisional commissioners are not appointed as District Returning Officers (DROs), Returning Officers (ROs), or Presiding Officers.<\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ECP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ECP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x7iER8WPWY\">pic.twitter.com\/x7iER8WPWY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Election Commission of Pakistan (OFFICIAL) (@ECP_Pakistan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ECP_Pakistan\/status\/1758785193005982042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To find out the truth and protect the integrity of the election process, the ECP has promised that the issue will be thoroughly investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Commissioner Rawalpindi&#8217;s claims have been categorically refuted by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which asserts that it never gave him instructions to rig elections. Read More:\u00a0\u201cPeaceful Protests\u201d today by PTI in response to Rigging in Elections Prior to this, Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaqat Ali Chatta resigned from his position after confessing to election tampering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11511,9,21,2,147],"tags":[10297,10362,11689,11935],"class_list":["post-26234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2024","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-election","tag-election-2024","tag-election-2024-results","tag-election-2024-rigging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}