KARACHI, November 27: Former Federal Minister and member CEC of the Pakistan Peoples Party Nawab Yousuf Talpur has raised objection over the posting of a close aide of former Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim as District Returning Officer in Tharparker and demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan to immediately replace him with an honest, neutral and full-fledged District and Sessions Judge. 

In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, he said Zaheer Ahmed Khan was Additional Secretary in Law Department during Arbab Rahim’s tenure as Chief Minister and it was Arbab who got him posted as DRO Tharparker to rig the elections on the shoulders of the Election Commission of Pakistan. 

He said that Zaheer Ahmed Khan was posted as Additional District and Sessions judge in Tharparker after the announcement of the election schedule. It is interesting that Zaheer Ahmed Khan was allotted a room in MPA Hostel on the directives of Arbab Ghulam Rahim. 

Nawab Yousuf Talpur said that Arbab Ghulam Rahim was using all the state resources and machinery to rig the elections as he knew that he or any of his family members cannot win the elections without the support of state machinery. 

He also condemned the chasing of PPP candidate Imam Ali Samejo from NA-230 and his relative Sher Khan Samejo by some agency people and asked the Election Commission to take notice of it. 

The PPP leader also pointed out to the shameful discrimination in Diplo at the office of Returning Officer where Arbab Ghulam Rahim, accompanied by DCO and DPO was given CM’s protocol while PPP candidates were forced to park their vehicles at distant place.