Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Salman Akram Raja on Friday alleged that the election rigging was carried out at the offices of the returning offices in the election 2024.

“Normally, one talks of rigging at polling stations where the accusation is that the rival candidates carried out the rigging,” he said during a press conference in Islamabad where the PTI presented Forms 45 before the international media to show alleged rigging in the election of 2024.

He called the election results an assault on the democracy of Pakistan, saying “factitious Forms 47 were created which had nothing to do with the underlying vote that had been cast on February 8.”

Raja alleged that the Froms 47 delivered at the RO offices were tampered with and discarded. “Completely fictitious results were created in at least 90 National Assembly constituencies.”

The lawyer said that the election in Pakistan would become a farce if “the state officials responsible for safeguarding the election can be won over.”

“If this is not reversed then it spells death for democracy in Pakistan,” Raja added.

Earlier, PTI Spokesman Raoof Hasan claimed that his party won 177 seats of the National Assembly as he said that the results in Form 47 were in contrast with those of Form 45.

He said that there was also a huge difference in the numbers of votes polled for NA and provincial assembly seats. The number of rejected votes, in a few cases, exceeded the margin of victory, he added.

PTI’s Seemabia Tahir also played a video of alleged rigging in the Feb 8 polls.

PTI’s Shandana Gulzar gave a presentation on alleged rigging in the Feb 8 polls, saying that the party got 1.25 million votes in Karachi but did not get a single seat.

“Jamaat-i-Islami received 700,000 votes and not a single National Assembly seat in Karachi,” she added.

Gulzar went on to add that at 3am on Feb 9, the PTI had won 154 seats in the National Assembly while the PML-N and PPP had won 47 each.