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00:00 So, Pakistan Tariq Insaaf has decided to bring Vukla to the ground.

00:04 There is an election tomorrow, but before that, there is a twist in the story.

00:07 Today, Akbar S. Babar, the Pakistan Tariq Insaaf's secretariat, went.

00:11 He was asked, "Why have you come here after 13 years?"

00:14 He said, "I have come to get information about the election papers,

00:17 I have come to ask about some nomination papers,

00:20 and generally, I have come to know about the state of the intra-party election."

00:26 Let's hear what he had to say.

00:28 I have come to the central office of PTI after 13 years.

00:32 Our purpose is to get information about the intra-party election,

00:39 the nomination papers, the method of the election,

00:43 the voter list, so that the founding members of PTI who want to participate in the election,

00:50 they want to know about the method of the election,

00:53 and we want to get the nomination papers, so that we can collect them and participate in the election.

01:00 That's why we are here.

01:02 So, we will talk about this issue before the program.

01:04 In this, we have with us Barrister Zaroosan Panjota on video.

01:08 And we have with us Akbar S. Babar, the founder of Pakistan Tariq Insaaf.

01:14 We will talk to him as well.

01:16 I think we should start with Akbar S. Babar,

01:18 so that we can know what he wants to say, and where he is going to take the issue.

01:23 Assalam-o-Alaikum, Akbar S. Babar, can you hear me?

01:27 Yes, Walaikum-as-Salaam, I can hear you clearly.

01:30 Sir, tell us, you went to Pakistan Tariq Insaaf after 13 years,

01:33 the intra-party election is going to take place.

01:36 You had to get information there.

01:38 Did you get the information, or did you file the nomination papers?

01:41 What happened there? Was there a plan to participate in the election?

01:45 Or was it just to get information?

01:47 In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most compassionate.

01:50 Look, I will give you a little background.

01:53 Because I am a founding member,

01:56 the original constitution that was there,

01:59 we made it in the late 90s.

02:03 And in the constitution making committee,

02:07 I was a member, Hamid Khan Sahib was there,

02:10 Naraj Maud Khan Sahib was there,

02:12 Fauzia Kasuri was there,

02:14 Nawab Khan Niazi, founding PT-FM, Punjab was there,

02:17 and a few others.

02:19 So we thought about it, and for many days,

02:24 we had to sit in Lahore and sign the constitution.

02:28 The entire party culture was democratic.

02:33 At that time, we had written that the party chairman

02:37 would also be democratically elected,

02:40 but he would not be more than two terms,

02:44 he would automatically be debarred.

02:46 The purpose of this was to make the party an institution.

02:49 And my struggle is the same,

02:51 you can see the form funding case,

02:53 you can cast your opinion on it,

02:55 the purpose of that was the same,

02:57 and it is that Pakistan Tariq Insaaf becomes a democratic and accountable community.

03:02 Which then becomes a role model and a compulsion for other political communities.

03:06 And I keep saying that the Election Commission should play a proactive role,

03:11 not only in the case of intraparty elections, but also in the case of all other parties.

03:16 Absolutely right, sir, you have come to this point,

03:19 technically you have given the context.

03:21 What happened today, I want to ask you about it.

03:23 Today, because of the intraparty elections,

03:26 after the decision of the Election Commission,

03:29 the allegations that were made, you have presented them in the intro.

03:33 Unfortunately, what is happening is that,

03:36 Imran Khan is in jail,

03:38 so his lawyer seems to be having a press conference.

03:45 So many contradictory things are happening.

03:47 So all of us who were original members of PTI,

03:49 and other people who were elected before,

03:51 we decided that we should take part in this,

03:54 and participate in it,

03:56 not because it is for a position.

03:58 Because Imran Khan had personally offered me two times the Secretary General.

04:02 And I politely refused,

04:04 because I did not have the resources to fulfill that role.

04:08 But it was very important that the workers get a chance,

04:11 and there is an election for democracy.

04:13 So, because we were not getting the information,

04:17 we wanted to participate.

04:19 So, today we are participating in the elections.

04:21 So, what is the status now?

04:22 You are participating,

04:24 you are not even a member, am I correct?

04:26 Are you a party member?

04:27 No, you are totally incorrect,

04:29 because the Election Commission of Pakistan,

04:32 on 17th May 2017,

04:34 then the Shingle Bench of Islamabad High Court,

04:36 and then the Double Bench of Islamabad High Court,

04:38 have written in clear words that

04:40 I am a member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf,

04:43 and any such claim that they make,

04:46 has no basis.

04:48 This is documented.

04:49 The highest court in Islamabad High Court,

04:53 the Double Bench of Islamabad High Court,

04:55 Athar Minilla was the Chief Justice at that time.

04:57 We have established that you are a member.

04:59 Have you filed a paper?

05:02 Because the election is tomorrow.

05:04 I am coming to that.

05:06 When we put our three requests in front of the PTI representative,

05:09 which are recorded,

05:11 we told them that we should be given a nomination in the documents,

05:14 which is our right,

05:15 any PTI member has the right.

05:17 Number two, we told them to give us a voter list,

05:19 whoever wants to take a part,

05:21 that is their right.

05:22 Third, we told them that the election laws,

05:25 which you are going to enter the party,

05:27 we went to take these three simple things.

05:30 I respect the PTI representatives who met us.

05:35 They said very clearly that these things do not exist.

05:39 How can we give you?

05:41 If they existed, we would have given you.

05:43 This is just a paper process.

05:45 All these things have been documented on camera.

05:47 So what is the status now?

05:49 Are you taking a share or you have been refused that you cannot take a share?

05:53 You tell me that I want to take a share in the election,

05:57 but when they say that we do not have the nomination papers,

06:01 I was in the central office,

06:03 now there can be no office more than this.

06:05 So now the problem is that they have refused you the documents,

06:08 you are not taking a share, tomorrow the election is going to take place.

06:10 No, no, no, they did not refuse the documents.

06:22 They said that we do not have the documents,

06:25 that the documents do not exist in the central office.

06:28 Now there is a big difference.

06:30 If they had refused us,

06:32 then they could have cut the legal door somewhere else in the evening.

06:35 They said that Babar sir, these three things do not exist with us.

06:39 I asked them to tell me some other representative,

06:41 some other media contact person about the election.

06:45 They said that there is no one in the office, we are here.

06:48 We are telling you that there is no such thing.

06:51 Then a Balochistan lawyer had come there,

06:53 he was also recording it.

06:55 He said that we have been sitting here since evening,

06:57 we have not been given any kind of facility.

06:59 Babar sir, from your conversation, I am getting the idea that

07:02 if the election takes place tomorrow,

07:04 then you may have started legally challenging this.

07:06 This is what I think from your conversation.

07:08 Look, my conversation is clear that

07:10 I wish this had not happened today.

07:12 I wanted to be a part of a democratic process.

07:15 What is the result of this spectrum?

07:17 I am saying that it is obvious that when facts have come in front of me,

07:21 then I am entitled to keep these facts in front of the Election Commission.

07:24 This is not my duty.

07:26 So sir, you will challenge this, whatever the election will be.

07:28 I will keep the facts,

07:30 whatever the election commission decides on it, it will be its right.

07:32 Okay, thank you very much, Babar sir is present with us.

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