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Pakistan Elections 2024: Rigging Allegations Surface Amid Claims of Vote Rejection and Ballot Stuffing

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Pakistan Elections 2024: Rigging Allegations Surface Amid Claims of Vote Rejection and Ballot Stuffing

Pakistan awaits the results of a general election which is witnessing a faceoff between two former prime ministers of the country- jailed Imran Khan and back-from-exile Nawaz Sharif.However, Nawaz Sharif’s party has consistently maintained that the elections are being rigged to support his record-breaking fourth term. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI), led by Imran Khan, declared during the nation’s vote-counting process that “Nawaz Sharif should be ashamed of himself for stealing public mandate.”The PTI, led by Imran Khan, shared a document on X, the previous Twitter platform, stating that “the number of total valid votes (in NA 130 Lahore constituency where Nawaz Sharif contested) is greater than total number of votes casted”.

The party said, “Unusual number of votes rejected in NA-151 (more than 2x the winning margin)” in another post. “At the GPS Haji Fateh Khan Kot polling station in my constituency NA-40 North Waziristan, the presiding officer and staff have been blatantly and shamelessly stuffing ballots in favor of PTI’s Aurangzeb Khan.” stated Mohsin Dawar, a member of the National Assembly representing NA-48, on X.He continued, “The ECP should be ashamed of such obvious rigging.”

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Pakistan Elections 2024: What do latest results show?

According to news agencies, PTI supporters have secured approximately 49 seats in the 266-member national house thus far, compared to 42 held by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and 34 by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Most of the seats gained by PTI-backed candidates were in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with just over half of the constituencies having had ballots called. According to unofficial tallies on local TV stations, independents were leading for many of the open seats.

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‘Good Day For Democracy’: PM Modi Says SC Order A ‘Tight Slap’ On Those Attempting To Malign EVMs

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‘Good Day For Democracy’: PM Modi Says SC Order A ‘Tight Slap’ On Those Attempting To Malign EVMs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday invited the Preeminent Court’s administration in the EVMs-VVPAT case and said the arrangement is a “tight slap” on those individuals who persistently attempted to “malign EVM.”.

“These individuals persistently attempted to insult EVM, but nowadays SC gives them an exceptionally tight slap. They will not be able to see anything; nowadays is a great day for democracy,” the prime minister said while tending to an open rally in Bihar’s Araria.

PM Modi encouraged and highlighted how each pioneer of the INDI union “sinned making questions in the minds of the open concerning EVM,” but the Incomparable Court’s arrangement “shattered all their dreams” and “intended to plunder the poll boxes.”.

“Every pioneer of the INDI organization together has sinned making questions in the minds of the open with respect to EVM. But nowadays, under the control of the country’s majority rule government and Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s structure,  the Preeminent Court has given such an extreme blow to those who plan to plunder the poll boxes that all their dreams have been shattered.

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“Today, when the entire world is lauding India’s popular government, India’s decision-making process, and the utilization of innovation in decisions, at that point these individuals were actively stigmatizing EVM for their individual interface.

They have persistently attempted to sell out democracy,” he added. Earlier nowadays, the Preeminent Court rejected the supplications looking for vote paper voting and rejected supplications looking for cross-verification of the votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter Irrefutable Paper Review Path (VVPAT).

“We have rejected all of them, after alluding to the convention in put, specialized perspectives, and information that is on record,” Equity Sanjiv Khanna said, concurring with a Live Law report.

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Indian-origin student at Princeton arrested for participating in a pro-Palestine protest, barred from the university

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Indian-origin student at Princeton arrested for participating in a pro-Palestine protest, barred from the university

Achinthya Sivalingan, an Indian-origin student, was one of two students arrested Thursday at Princeton University in the United States for engaging in a pro-Palestine protest on campus.

Sivalingan and Hassan Sayed, both from Coimbatore, were arrested early Thursday morning as student protesters set up tents in the university courtyard, according to the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

“According to a paper provided by demonstrators, the arrested students are Achinthya Sivalingam and Hassan Sayed. Urvi, a first-year Ph.D. student who only wanted to be named by her first name, described the arrest as “violent” and claimed zip ties were placed around their wrists, according to the college alumni magazine.

ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING
In a statement, Jennifer Morrill, a spokesperson for the University, noted that erecting tents violated University regulations, resulting to the arrest of the two students for trespassing “[a]fter repeated warnings from the Department of Public Safety to cease the activity and leave the area.”

Additionally, Morrill stated that Sivalingan and Sayed “have been immediately barred from campus, pending a disciplinary process.” She added that the remaining tents were “voluntarily taken down by protestors.”

Sivalingam is pursuing a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) in International Development at Princeton, while Sayed is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the famed university’s economics department.

SIVALINGAM AND SAYS ‘NOT EVICTED’

According to The Daily Princetonian, student organizers have circulated an Instagram document urging alumni and other university members to call and email the University to stop disciplinary actions, claiming that Sivalingam and Sayed were removed from their campus housing and given only five minutes to collect their belongings.

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However, in a statement, university spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss emphasized that no one has been ‘evicted’.

“No one has been ‘evicted’ from the university today. Under University protocol, Public Safety may initially accompany students barred from campus (for any reason) to their University housing to collect whatever belongings they require in the short term until the specific terms of their bar from campus are determined by the designated administrator,” Hotchkiss stated.

He went on to state, “Those who were banished from the primary campus nowadays are allowed to remain in their university-owned lodging, as the assigned chairman chose that their bar did not apply to their non-dormitory residences.”

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Pro-Palestine energizers have cleared through driving colleges in the United States, with hundreds of understudies taking to their campuses to condemn the fatalities in Gaza caused by the Israeli military campaign.

These shows are one of the earliest instances of clashes between law enforcement and understudies challenging the rising passing toll in Israel’s struggle with the Palestinian activist group Hamas. Student nonconformists have been encouraging their colleges to strip their speculations about Israel and advocate for a quick ceasefire.

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Varun Gandhi rejects the BJP’s offer to fight from Rae Bareli after considering it for more than a week

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Varun Gandhi rejects the BJP’s offer to fight from Rae Bareli after considering it for more than a week

Varun Gandhi, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pioneer and cousin of Congress pioneers Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, is said to have turned down an offer from his party to run for Lok Sabha from Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh. This place is respected as a Gandhi family fortress, with Sonia Gandhi and Indira Gandhi having already won it.

The welcome to Varun Gandhi came after the hypothesis that Priyanka Gandhi might run from Rae Bareli. Varun Gandhi, who was evacuated from his Pilibhit situate, took time to mull over the offer, recently declining it, claiming a wish to maintain a strategic distance from an individual and a divisive decision campaign.

The BJP had trusted Varun Gandhi would acknowledge the offer, given his family’s history with the situation. His mother, Maneka Gandhi, had challenged Rajiv Gandhi in 1984. In any case, Varun Gandhi’s choice not to challenge has left the BJP without a candidate for Rae Bareli.

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The Congress, on the other hand, has not yet reported its candidates for Rae Bareli or Amethi. The party’s hold over Rae Bareli has been debilitating, with declining vote offers in later races in spite of progressive wins. This has raised concerns for the Congress, particularly with compelling neighborhood pioneers like Rae Bareli joining the BJP.

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