{"id":5957,"date":"2025-05-03T06:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5957"},"modified":"2025-05-03T06:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:07:13","slug":"pti-protests-outside-ecp-over-stolen-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5957","title":{"rendered":"PTI protests outside ECP over \u2018stolen mandate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
On the call of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, a major protest was held outside the Election Commission of Pakistan\u2019s (ECP) office in Peshawar.<\/p>\n

Organized by PTI, the demonstration drew a large crowd, including party workers and members of the provincial assembly. In anticipation of the protest, authorities cordoned off the ECP office with barbed wire and deployed a heavy police contingent to maintain order.
\nChanting slogans in support of Imran Khan, PTI supporters demanded the immediate release of their party\u2019s founder and other detained members.<\/p>\n

Addressing the protestors, PTI Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa President Junaid Akbar, Special Assistant to the K-P Department of Population Welfare Malik Liaqat Ali Khan, MNA Atif Khan, and other party leaders alleged that national institutions were undermining the public mandate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power and privileges of institutions exist because of the people; therefore, they must respect the public\u2019s vote,\u201d speakers emphasized.
\nJunaid Akbar said PTI workers stood ready to mobilize at Adiala Jail or D-Chowk whenever Imran Khan gives the call.<\/p>\n

He accused institutions of eliminating political space for PTI and unjustly labeling its peaceful workers as terrorists.
\n\u201cWe are here today to bring shame to the shameless,\u201d he declared, branding the ECP as the \u201cCorruption Commission\u201d and a \u201cguardian of defectors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Condemning PTI\u2019s targeting in the foreign funding case, the leaders questioned why financial scrutiny of other political parties remained pending.<\/p>\n

They claimed that peaceful protests were taking place nationwide to reclaim what they described as a \u201cstolen mandate.\u201d
\nThe speakers denounced Imran Khan\u2019s imprisonment as unjust and demanded his immediate release, calling him the nation\u2019s hope and a symbol of democratic struggle.<\/p>\n

They vowed that the fight for democracy, constitutional supremacy, and the rule of law would continue.<\/p>\n

They called for legal action against returning officers allegedly involved in widespread rigging during the general elections.
\n\u201cPTI candidates won by a clear majority, but the ECP, in collusion with others, manipulated the results to ensure their defeat,\u201d they claimed, accusing returning officers of conspiring to alter outcomes deliberately. \u201cSuch blatant rigging would even shame a dictator,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Criticizing the ECP\u2019s role, they accused it of announcing pre-written verdicts and disrespecting the people\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose once demanding respect for the vote are now glorifying the boot,\u201d they said. The speakers maintained that if electronic voting machines (EVMs) had been used, rigging would have been exposed within an hour.<\/p>\n

They further alleged that the ECP, PML-N, and other institutions worked together to strip PTI of its rightful seats.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite receiving the public\u2019s vote, PTI candidates were sidelined due to poor planning and open rigging. The seats were awarded to candidates from other parties,\u201d they claimed.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the call of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, a major protest was held outside the Election Commission of Pakistan\u2019s (ECP) office in Peshawar. Organized by PTI, the demonstration drew a large crowd, including party workers and members of the provincial assembly. In anticipation of the protest, authorities cordoned off the ECP office with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}