ECP rejects ‘discussion and unhappiness’ on Senate election

A day after Prime Minister Imran Khan criticised the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for allowing “foul play” in the recent Senate elections, the commission issued a statement rejecting the “discussion and unhappiness” over the way polls for the upper house of parliament were conducted.

“It is a shocking matter that under the same staff in the same [election] under the same roof on the same day, [what they won] is acceptable and [what they lost] is unacceptable. Is this not open contradiction?” the commission questioned, adding:

“The ECP rejects this.”

“This is democracy and free elections and the beauty of free elections which the entire nation saw and which is mandated by the Constitution.”

Every political party should have the courage to accept its defeat, it said.