{"id":23055,"date":"2026-07-27T13:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23055"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:40:40","slug":"rana-sanaullah-alleges-pre-poll-rigging-in-ajks-la-10-kotli-constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23055","title":{"rendered":"Rana Sanaullah Alleges Pre-Poll Rigging in AJK&#8217;s LA-10 Kotli Constituency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prime Minister&#8217;s Adviser Rana Sanaullah has alleged pre-poll rigging in LA-10 Kotli ahead of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections and called for an immediate investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Rana Sanaullah claimed that a presiding officer and a patwari were found at the residence of Pakistan Peoples Party candidate Chaudhry Yasin along with polling bags.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Faisal Rathore and the Chief Election Commissioner to investigate the presiding officer and the patwari and determine the facts surrounding the alleged incident.<\/p>\n<p>Rana Sanaullah further demanded that polling in LA-10 Kotli be suspended until the inquiry is completed. He said authorities should first determine where the polling bags had been taken and whether they had been used improperly.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for an investigation into officials identified as Saqlain and Qaiser, alleging that they may have been involved in similar irregularities elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The adviser stated that Chaudhry Yasin is not only a candidate in the constituency but also the president of the Pakistan Peoples Party in Azad Kashmir. He claimed that the reported involvement of government officials had raised serious concerns about the transparency of the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>Rana Sanaullah said he would not accept the election results for LA-10 until the inquiry is completed.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no immediate response from the Pakistan Peoples Party, the Election Commission or the relevant authorities regarding the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Polling for the first phase of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections is underway across 13 constituencies in Mirpur Division, including Mirpur, Kotli and Bhimber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister&#8217;s Adviser Rana Sanaullah has alleged pre-poll rigging in LA-10 Kotli ahead of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections and called for an immediate investigation. In a statement, Rana Sanaullah claimed that a presiding officer and a patwari were found at the residence of Pakistan Peoples Party candidate Chaudhry Yasin along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[974,13219,172,509,13218,4831,828,459],"class_list":["post-23055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-azad-kashmir","tag-chaudhry-yasin","tag-election-commission","tag-elections","tag-la-10-kotli","tag-pakistan-peoples-party","tag-politics","tag-rana-sanaullah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23056,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions\/23056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}