PPP apprises ECP of its grievances regarding 'rigging' in Larkana poll.

KARACHI -- The Pakistan PeoAple's Party (PPP), which took no time to reject the results of October 17 re-election for PS-11 Larkana-II constituency, approaAched the Election Commission of Pakistan on Friday with details of its grievances and blamed deployment of security personnel as one of the reasons behind the 'rigged' elections.

In a letter to the ECP chief, Taj Haider, who is also in charge of the party's election cell, came up with arguments which mostly related to the vote-count process and the situation that ensued.

The letter demanded 'justice' and asked for action against those elements that defied the rules prescribed by the ECP.

'All political parties except the ones in Federal Government have demanded that army personnel should not be posted inside or outside the polling stations,' said the letter. 'Yet it was done and the consequences are the same as the ones obtained in the highly rigged and disputed general elections 2018. The federal government by using the armed forces in a domain that is purely a civilian domain is trying to politicise the armed forces. They are doing this at a time when our forces are facing serious internal and external challenges.'

The PPP leader said in his letter that at the end of the polling, security personnel pushed out PPP candidate's polling...