US Congress Votes 368-7 to call an independent investigation of Pakistan’s Feb 8th Alleged Rigged Elections.
368 of the 375 members of the US Congress voted in favor of a free and independent investigation into alleged fraud and human rights violations in Pakistan’s February 8 election.
Pakistan’s statement on this demand for investigation is that ‘such resolutions are neither constructive nor purposeful’.
Our resolution in the US House of Representatives also supports free and fair elections, representing the will of the people in Pakistan.
“Pakistan’s recent elections . . . were not conducted under conditions that credible election observers would consider independent or fair,” the congressman said.
The US Congress also condemned efforts to suppress the Pakistani people’s participation in democracy “through harassment, intimidation, torture, arbitrary detention”.
Pakistan’s Foreign Office has called the US House of Representatives’ resolution calling for an impartial investigation into claims of rigging in the February 8 general elections in Pakistan as false. The spokesperson of the Foreign Office said that such resolutions are neither constructive nor purposeful, hoping the US Congress will focus on ways of mutual cooperation.