ISLAMABAD (Staff Report) – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will address the nation today (Thursday). In his address, the premier will unveil findings of a report of the Judicial Commission over alleged rigging in the May 2013 general elections.
PM Sharif’s address is scheduled at 07.00 pm while preparations for recording of his address have already begun.
The state-run PTV crew has already reached the Prime Minister House.
The PM House officially received an inquiry report of Judicial Commission that investigated allegations of rigging in 2013 general elections leveled by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
According to sources, the PML-N government has decided to make the report public by uploading it on website of Ministry of Law.
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The decision was taken at an informal meeting of ruling clique – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his closest aides only, the sources said.
The judicial commission rejected Imran Khan’s allegations of ‘organised’ and ‘systematic’ rigging in the votes.
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The three-judge commission headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk and comprising Justice Ameer Hani Muslim and Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, in its report, rejected all the three allegations leveled by the PTI against PMLN, sources said.
