ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday directly invited the opposition to “sit together” with the government and discuss the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) to “reclaim the credibility” of elections but the opposition parties took no time in rejecting the fresh offer, saying the idea was not viable for the country and was a new “plot to rig the elections”.
“Unfortunately, no substantive (poll) reforms were put in place. Technology and use of Electronic Voting Machines are the only answer to reclaim credibility of elections. I invite the opposition to sit with us and select from EVM models we have available to restore our elections credibility,” the prime minister said in a series of tweets while referring to Thursday’s by-election in Karachi.
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Behind the Broadsheet blunder
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The Broadsheet Commission report is not merely an inquiry into what went wrong with one particular contract but is instead a sneak peek into how bureaucracy works.
The scandal is about two asset recovery firms: Broadsheet LLC (Isle of Man) and International Asset Recovery LLC (IAR), which never ended up providing any significant services, yet caused a huge loss to the national exchequer. Broadsheet eventually transferred its right of settlement to Steeplechase, which became the beneficiary of the final arbitration award.
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Dignified and unceremonious exits of election commissioners
National
March 16, 2021
LAHORE: While being at the helm of affairs, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has demanded that the Election Commission should be disbanded over its failure to conduct the recent Senate elections in a transparent manner.
The PTI has not come up with a demand such as this for the first time. After the 2013 ballot exercise, which had seen Nawaz Sharif coming into power for the third time, the loudest voice in the opposition, Imran Khan, had repeatedly accused Nawaz of rigging the polls.
In August 2015, he had announced to hold a sit-in in front of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) offices in Islamabad if its members did not tender their resignations by October 4 of the same year. “The ECP officials have no legal or moral standing left and they should immediately resign,” Imran had publicly asserted.