PTI's hypocrisy?

[Good Governance Forum]

Dear Friends:

We are still holding bye-elections under the same system that we are bashing day and night on our media. Why the political parties are not demanding electoral reforms before holding the bye-elections? Pity the PTI that is participating in the same bye-elections under the same system of 2013 general elections. What else can be called hypocrisy? Over 4 million registered overseas Pakistani voters are still deprived of their right to vote in these bye-elections. Why is PTI silent over it? What about the upcoming LG polls? Will they be held under the same system and also without overseas Pakistanis voting? Good Governance Forum was the only civil society organization that had offered web voting system for overseas Pakistanis in 2012 but the then CEC Mr Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim publicly rejected it without allowing us to make a presentation stating that it was not tried and tested system. SC let us down at the 11th hour by allowing the ECP to go ahead with the general elections without overseas Pakistanis participating in them. Earlier the same Supreme Court had said in one of the court hearings that the general elections would not be fair without overseas Pakistanis' participation. PPP and the PMLN were accused of opposing the overseas Pakistanis' participation fearing that the votes will go to PTI.

(Dictated by Mr Mumtaz A. Piracha)

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