GILGIT: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar has alleged that efforts to prevent the party from conducting its election campaign in Gilgit-Baltistan amount to pre-poll rigging.
Addressing a corner meeting during the party’s election campaign in Gilgit-Baltistan, Barrister Gohar criticized political opponents and claimed that individuals who failed to secure support in their own constituencies had now arrived to seek votes from the people of the region.
He expressed confidence that the people of Gilgit-Baltistan would reject such elements and their political approach.
The PTI chairman further alleged that preventing party leaders and members of the National Assembly from entering the region and expelling them from the province was unconstitutional and contrary to democratic principles.
According to Barrister Gohar, such measures were part of an effort to restrict political competition and undermine the democratic process.
He claimed that the performance of PTI’s political opponents over the past four years had largely focused on restricting the party’s activities in order to improve their own electoral prospects.
Barrister Gohar said the public would not be misled by such tactics and would make its decision through the ballot box.
He also warned that if what he described as the political isolation of PTI was not brought to an end, the party leadership would consider its future course of action, including the possibility of boycotting legislative assemblies.
The PTI chairman added that if the current political situation remained unchanged, other options, including distancing the party from the existing political system, could also come under consideration by the leadership.
