PTI, PPP accuse each other of 'rigging', demand ECP's intervention.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have accused each other of rigging and demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take action against the miscreants.

PTI leader Firdous Shamim Naqvi visited a polling station in Karachi and shared videos showing him removing what he claimed were loose seals from ballot boxes.

In his tweet, he said, 'There is no staff present in the polling station since the morning. There are five ballot boxes kept in a single room. There is no female staff present from the election commission.'

He further claimed, 'The presiding officer has no training; seals of all ballot boxes are open.' Criticising the ECP, he said, 'This work (ensuring proper election preparations) is not the candidate's duty.'

The video shared showed Naqvi arguing with a staff member that he was sealing the boxes 'incorrectly', upon which the staff offered him to seal them correctly.

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