Imran Khan, the chairman of the PTI, was criticised by PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Monday for making accusations against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja in his victory speech. Maryam warned Khan not to become “over-excited” on Twitter after he lost five out of the 20 seats in Sunday’s by-elections.
In response to Khan’s charges that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the CEC were rigged, the PML-N stalwart stated: “Your attack on ECP is not because of rigging that took place yesterday, but rather because of the dread of the decision [against you] in the foreign funding case.”
She urged the ECP to release its decision quickly, writing, “You [Khan] know that there is irrefutable evidence against you, which will certainly be released.”
The election commission reserved its decision in the PTI “foreign funding” matter on June 21. Blackmailing Faisal Karim Kundi, a spokesman for the PPP, added that Khan was “blackmailing” the electoral commission into delaying its ruling regarding the PTI’s foreign funding case.
