{"id":118093,"date":"2024-02-23T23:26:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=118093"},"modified":"2024-02-23T23:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:26:58","slug":"rawalpinditns-former-rawalpindi-commissioner-liaqat-ali-chata-has-retracted-his-bombshell-allegations-related-to-rigging-in-the-february-8-polls-saying-he-is-extremely-shameful-and-embarrassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=118093","title":{"rendered":"Rawalpindi(TNS): Former Rawalpindi commissioner Liaqat Ali Chata has retracted his bombshell allegations related to rigging in the February 8 polls, saying he is &#8220;extremely shameful and embarrassed&#8221; over the claims."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;| take full responsibility for my actions and surrender myself before the authorities for any kind of legal action,&#8221; Chatha said in a statement to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).<br \/>\nSays he is &#8220;extremely shameful and embarrassed&#8221; over the claims<br \/>\nHis statement comes hours after he recorded his statement before the ECP committee formed to probe his allegations, as per sources<br \/>\nIn a dramatic development last Saturday, Chatha had tendered his resignation, which he said was out of &#8220;guilty conscience&#8221; for abetting large-scale electoral rigging in the garrison city, further raising the political mercury in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner, in the rare press conference, took responsibility for the \u201crigging\u201d that he claimed took place in Rawalpindi Division. \u201cWe converted the losers into winners with 50,000 votes margin,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>In response to his allegations, the PTI, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), and other political parties \u2014 most of whom had already rejected the election results \u2014 demanded an investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>However, retracting his allegations, Chatha revealed that all of this was done in coordination with the Imran Khan-founded PTI, who had also offered him \u201clucrative positions for\u00a0me\u00a0in\u00a0future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22258\" src=\"https:\/\/dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00-45-743x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22259\" src=\"https:\/\/dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0-223-733x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;| take full responsibility for my actions and surrender myself before the authorities for any kind of legal action,&#8221; Chatha said in a statement to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Says he is &#8220;extremely shameful and embarrassed&#8221; over the claims His statement comes hours after he recorded his statement before the ECP committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118095,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118093\/revisions\/118095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}