Ex-KP MPA rejects allegations

RECORDER REPORT

PESHAWAR: Former member provincial assembly and runner-up in the May 11 general election at PK-43 Hangu, Haji Muhammad Farid on Monday rejected the allegations levelled by his political rival, Mufti Syed Janan, upon witnesses and demanded of the government to carry-out a judicial inquiry into the allegations.

Addressing a news conference here at Peshawar Press Club, Farid alleged that his political rival Mufti Janan got success by rigging the electoral process in PK-43 Hangu-II in the last general elections. “I approached the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and challenged his success through a writ petition,” he said, adding upon which the Election Tribunal Peshawar asked us to present our witnesses on October 23, against the rigging done in the electoral process.

Farid alleged that after court order on 23rd, his rival Janan filed a petition in the local civil court under section 164 of PPC. He added that six months earlier in May 2013 unknown miscreants had been made a bomb blast during election campaign, in which his (Farid’s) witnesses were involved to bar them to give their statement in the election tribunal.

“My political rival has come on such tactics to frighten my witnesses by lodging wrong cases against them,” he maintained. The losing candidate Farid appealed Chief Justice Supreme Court of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Federal Government to take notice of the baseless allegations and conduct an impartial judicial inquiry into the matter.