Muzaffarabad: Government chaos and rigging during the Legislative Assembly election in Ghulam Kashmir (Gilgit-Baltistan) has led to a revolt against the Pakistan Army. Thousands of people have taken to the streets. Clashes took place at several places with the security forces. The road has been blocked at various places. Angry people burnt tires and threw them on the streets. Stone pelting was also done at many places. During the road jam, people clashing with the security forces raised slogans against the army and Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The people were upset because of major interference by the PTI government in the election process of PoK which was conducted on July 25 in which clashes between the opposition parties were also reported. The PoK assembly has a total of 53 members but only 45 are directly elected.
Pakistan’s opposition parties on Sunday accused the Imran Khan-led-PTI government of “rigging” in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections. During the polls, two Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers were killed in a clash with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) activists at a polling station in the Kotli district of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Vice-President Maryam Nawaz has outrightly refused to accept the results.
The PPP leader alleged PTI workers had fired on a PPP worker’s car during polling time, while police had uprooted a camp belonging to her party. PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb in a statement said that PTI “goons” had attacked her party’s workers in Gujranwala’s Alipur Chatha area to “rig” the election.
Aurangzeb said despite PTI workers beating up her party workers, the police “arrested those associated with PML-N”. “PTI has been allowed to engage in hooliganism with complete liberty,” she said.