ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has decided to write a letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to highlight alleged rigging in the Feb 8 general elections, said party leader Barrister Ali Zafar.
While talking to media outside Adiala Jail, he said that the global lender, European Union and other international organizations work in a country where there is good governance. He added that holding transparent elections is the basic requirement of democracy that can ensure good governance.
He alleged that the mandate of public was stolen through rigging in elections as winners were converted into losers on Feb 8.
Ali Zafar said every organisation would avoid giving loan to a country where elections are rigged, adding that the PTI would demand, in the letter, an independent audit team to probe the allegations of fraud in elections.
PTI and other political parties such as Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) have been leveling allegations of rigging since the polsl were held on Feb 8. They have also demanded a resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikander Sultan Raja.
Cash-strapped Pakistan secured a short-term $3 billion bailout package from the IMF last year which helped it avert a default. It will run out next month and the new administration will eye to secure another and bigger programme.
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