Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Taimur Jhagra said that no one inside his party is looking for a confrontation and the time is not ripe for such an approach either.
Speaking to Munizae Jahangir in Spotlight on Aaj News, Jhagra claimed that many people had admitted to him off the record that they had been involved in changing the results of the election in khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He quoted one officer who had said that the rigging would be a sword hanging over the officer’s heads for the rest of their lives.
He added that he does not personally know Rawalpindi’s commissioner, but was not surprised by his allegations.
Jhagra said that in many places, the authorities conscience had been awakened by PTI’s margin of victory and had refrained from rigging.
He added that wherever PTI had won, it had won against the wind and had been the victim wherever rigging had taken place.
The former minister added that tactics ususally reserved for the peripheral areas seemed to have been applied to rig elections in the mainstream this time.
He went on to say that PTI had sweeped the triabal areas where individual votes counted for more than any other area so it made no sense that PTI had lost in Peshawar.
Jhagra said that he did believe that he was personally targeted.
He said that he had strived in the last 10 months to improve the situation but had not tried to ‘reach out’ to anyone or tried to hide himself.
He added that of all the leaders who had spoken out in the last months, only he seemed to have been targeted.
Jhagra said that many ROs and DCs had borne pressure but not in Peshawar. He named DC Afaq Wazeer, CCPO Ashfaq Anwar SSP Kashif Abbasi as those who were repsonsible for rigging in Peshawar.
He added that the officers had shut themselves in a room and no candidate was allowed inside.
Jhagra said that there was no doubt that the caretaker provincial government was also involved in th whole affair as well.
He claimed that all returning officers from Peshawar are ‘missing persons’.
He said that while he agreed Ali Amin gandapur would be a strong chief minister, he did not believe that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf would be in fighting mode.
Jhagra added that no one in the PTI, including Gandapur himself, would go towards confrontation right now. He added that this was not the time for confrontation.
However, he still added that the results of rigging should be rectified.
Jhagra said that PTI voters would have been disappointed if PTI joined hands with anyone who was part of PDM.
He added that in KP, PTI’s voters would have digested an alliance with ANP or PPP more easily than one with PTI-Parliamentarians.
Jhagra said that the people in PTI-P had left the party in a time of difficulty and voices inside the party were against an alliance.
