"Aimal Wali's statement was contempt of court as well as an attack on PHC," Salman Akram Raja
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00:00 By the way, looking at the situation, it seems that even the bat has gone.
00:02 Look, nothing can be said.
00:07 The way the Peshawar High Court was attacked, you must have heard the speech of Amal Wali Khan.
00:14 In my opinion, it was not just an insult to the court, it was a criminal attack on the Peshawar High Court.
00:19 But there was no bail, I have not yet heard that they have been given a notice,
00:24 there has been an action against them, the way the leaders of other political parties have also expressed their disdain for that decision,
00:33 it seems as if the Pakistan Movement for Justice is attacking the political system of Pakistan.
00:41 So this is a strange and strange situation where those people who call themselves democratic,
00:47 who claim to be part of democratic action, do not want a political party to participate in an election under a political symbol.
00:56 Sir, you yourself understand that there is an election, so much has happened,
01:02 if they take a bat, then their help will be a little more.
01:05 They are not able to fight the election, in hindsight, the situation is such that if they come to the batting field,
01:10 they do not want to fight the election in that environment, because they think they can't win.
01:14 This is the reason why you are putting so much effort to go to the batting field.
01:18 This is the reason.
01:20 And look, the last 4-5 days, since the phase of entering the documents,
01:26 after that there was a phase of scrutiny, I have been on the streets,
01:29 I have gone with many hopefuls for help,
01:33 the offices of the RO, the police, I would say an encounter,
01:39 I am a witness to that, the way people came in plain clothes and came to me,
01:45 a proposer was standing with me, people picked him up from his neck, his waist and his land and ran away.
01:50 These were such incidents that we could not imagine that it would be like this in Lahore, Pakistan,
01:57 and what was the crime of these people that they wanted to go to the office to enter documents to fight an election.
02:02 Some ROs complained about the system, they said save us.
02:09 Some policemen after arguing and arguing, hugged and said save us,
02:15 we are all victims of this system.
02:19 This system is not only bad for the oppressed, it is also bad for the oppressors.
02:25 So it is a strange situation that the whole system is in turmoil.
02:30 Sir, I will come back to this, the problems of the system are there in their place,
02:36 as I said in the beginning, the way this system is running,
02:40 at least in my opinion, it has not passed so blatantly.
02:46 I will come back to this, Mr. Kumar Dilshad is present, but Mr. Rai,
02:50 tell me what will be the effect of all this leadership that you have taken,
02:54 and if it is changed, we have already talked about it.
02:57 Mr. Kumar Dilshad, you have been with the Election Commission for a long time,
03:03 and you have also seen the situation after the retirement of the election commission.
03:07 Have you seen such situations and incidents as you are seeing today?
03:12 This is a very unique situation that we are seeing.
03:18 All the elections that we have done, it is okay that the establishment
03:23 of the election commission was not in the interest of the people.
03:27 For example, we were seeing this in the 2002 election,
03:30 but the way the situation is coming in front of us now,
03:33 there are cases in different courts, lawsuits are also being filed,
03:37 and as far as the decisions of the returning officers are concerned,
03:42 they have always been opposed, whether they were of the judiciary or the administration.
03:47 But sir, the way it has happened, you have seen that the entire leadership has been cleared,
03:52 the way the proposal and the second are being stopped.
03:55 I am asking because you have seen this before.
03:58 Sir, it has happened that about 80% of the candidates of the party have been rejected,
04:04 they have been rejected very surprisingly.
04:07 It is a surprise for us too, as per our experience, we say that it was a very surprising matter.
04:12 But in this, the returning officers from the administration,
04:18 the election commission of Pakistan trained them,
04:22 they did a lot of training, but they did not get the right training.
04:26 And along with that, they do not know about the matters of the judiciary,
04:30 they have no knowledge about the election law,
04:33 they are experts in the matter of administration, in their judicial matters.
04:37 But their knowledge about the election was very weak.