LG by-polls: Hafiz Naeem claims 'won 8 out of 11 Karachi UCs'

KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has asserted that his party has won eight seats out of 11 Union Councils (UCs) in Karachi, accusing Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) of violence during local government (LG) by-elections, ARY News reported on Sunday.

Addressing a press conference, the JI Karachi chief demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to announce transparent results and issue Forms XI and XII, adding that the people of Karachi will not accept bogus results.

Hafiz Naeem claimed that the JI has won eight out of 11 union councils (UCs) despite the use of government machinery by Pakistan Peoples Party-led (PPP) Sindh government.

“PPP, in open violation of rules and regulations, used the state’s machinery and pressurised public servants to manipulate the electoral process and results,” he added.

The JI leader made it clear that people of Karachi will not accept bogus results and his party will take to streets against ‘any step to snatch its mandate’.

Detailing the ‘fascism demonstrated by the PPP government’, he said that the PPP mobs attacked the JI camps, opened firing and tortured the party workers. “At least seven JI workers were shifted to hospital in injured condition,” he added.

“The PPP goons also uprooted tents and opened straight fire on JI workers”, he alleged adding that the police not only played the role of a spectator but later arrest JI workers and lodged first information reports against them.