Chairman PTI Imran Khan and Elahi casted vote via postal ballots
Chairman PTI Imran Khan picture courtesy CNN
The postal vote surveying on Wednesday concluded at Adiala Jail, with the detained originator of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, working out his voting right through a postal ballot.
A overall to of fifteen detainees, among them Imran Khan and previous Punjab chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, perform in the postal poll voting process.
Be that as it may, in spite of supplications from Ex-foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Ex-interior Minister Sheik Rasheed Ahmed, the jail management was incapable to secure the postal ballots.
Imran Khan finds himself imprisoned with a count of four criminal doctrine, three of which were articulated a week ago. Due to these legitimate misfortunes, he is denied from taking an interest in election or accepting any public office.
The sentences given down incorporate terms of three, 10, 14, and seven a long time, all to be served concurrently. Besides, Imran Khan faces a broad legitimate challenge, with over 150 extra legitimate cases pending against him.
He remains imprisoned ahead of February 8 (today’s) vote.
Out of the 145 detainees who connected to vote through postal polls, as it were fifteen, counting Imran Khan and Pervaiz Ellahi, overseen to get the fundamental materials for casting their votes.
An assigned area inside the imprison was reserved as a polling station for the postal ballot voting.
Due to the high-profile status of Imran and Elahi, postal votes and voting materials were sent to their cells, where they stamped and submitted their votes.
It is worth noticing that a add up to of 145 detainees, counting the author of PTI, Ex-CM Punjab, Ex-Foreign Minister and Ex-Interior Minister, had submitted applications to the jail managment to work out their voting rights through postal ballots.
Be that as it may, due to the disappointment of the prison administration to get the postal ballots, roughly 130 detainees, counting Sheikh Rasheed and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, were unable to share within the polls process.
The cast votes have allegedly been dispatched to the District Returning Officer (DRO) at the ECP within the endorsed way.
