LAHORE, Jan 30: Jamaat-e-Islami has reiterated the allegation that caretaker rulers have made foolproof arrangements for rigging the coming elections, and asked the political parties not to fall in their trap and boycott the elections to join the movement to remove the dictatorship.

In a statement on Wednesday, JI deputy secretary general Mian Maqsood Ahmad said a large number of prisoners in various jails all over the country had written or informed the party leadership through other sources that they have been forced to sign or affixed their thumb stamp on the empty ballot papers. Maqsood said all such ballot papers will be used in favor of PML-Q candidates. He said such postal votes by tens of thousands of prisoners could cause serious effects on election results.

Maqsood also said that in addition to that, all the workers and employees in the offices of DCOs, district Nazims, DPOs, Health, Education and other government departments have already been made to sign and put thumb impression on their postal ballots as part of the electoral rigging.

He said fake postal ballots are one example while the rulers have made many other such 'arrangements' to win 'transparent' elections. He warned the political parties against participating in the elections and said it was high time they should boycott the elections and participate in the remove Musahrraf movement to restore real democracy and rule of constitution and law in the country.

 
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