Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The former Interior Minister Rehman Malik has requested Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan to form a technical committee to investigate the shutdown of election results software on the polling day.

The senator wrote a letter to the PM and mentioned that the Senate had entrusted the Standing Committee on Interior with looking after the elections proceedings, and as the country’s Interior Minister Imran Khan is required to assist the committee in its probe.

The committee had asked the electoral body (ECP) to investigate the failure of the Results Transmission System (RTS), identify responsible ones and suggest action against them, Malik wrote.

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“It is of national interest to investigate the RTS collapse and to direct the Cabinet division at the earliest to form a technical committee to probe the matter,” the Pakistan Peoples Party leader added.

According to the sources, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) held NADRA responsible for the RTS shutdown on the polling day.

The party had reportedly formed a committee headed by PTI Parliamentary leader in the Senate, Azam Swati, to investigate the RTS collapse.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which introduced the software for the July 25 election, has faced severe criticism after results were unusually delayed on election day.

Similarly, the opposition parties have accused that the election were rigged and urged for a probe into the RTS collapse.