Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has sought treason cases against officials who allegedly stole the party’s mandate in February’s general election and allowed the rival Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) to ) and the People’s Party (PPP) formed a coalition government.

Khan made the remarks while speaking to reporters after a hearing on Saturday. Kadir Trust Corruption Case His wife Bushra Bibi, aide Farah Gogi and real estate tycoon Malik Riaz were also involved.

February 8 Pakistan’s elections have been marred by accusations of fraud.

While more than 90 independent candidates backed by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won the largest number of seats in the National Assembly, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) is led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) The country, led by former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto, reached a post-poll deal and formed a coalition government.

PTI said the new government was formed by stealing its mandate.

Khan claimed on Saturday that his party received more than 30 million votes, while 17 other parties together received the same number of votes, Dawn newspaper reported.

he said his Party admits poll irregularities to IMF (International Monetary Fund) and NGOs also pointed out flaws in the electoral process.

At the same time, protests were held outside the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the United States to protest against alleged fraud in the polls.

In his speech, Khan, 71, supported the demonstrations outside the IMF offices but distanced himself from the anti-military slogans raised by the protesters.

“First, PTI was deprived of its electoral symbol ‘bat’ under conspiracy and then the former ruling party was deprived of its share of reserved seats,” Khan said, seeking treason cases against officials who stole the people’s mandate.

The cricketer-turned-politician said stealing the mandate was akin to treason, raising concerns under Article 6 of the Constitution.

He said the Peshawar High Court (PHC) order on reservation of seats will be challenged in the Supreme Court, adding that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) cannot allot PTI’s seats to other parties.

The PHC on Thursday unanimously rejected a Sunni Ittehad Council petition challenging the Election Commission’s decision to allocate seats reserved for women and minorities in the national and provincial legislatures to other political parties Doubt, which dealt a huge blow to PTI.

The PTI-backed independents who won the February 8 election joined the Sunni Ittehad Council, a political alliance of Pakistan’s Islamist political parties and the Barelvi religious party, to gain a share of reserved seats.

Khan said the February 8 election was a fixed contest in which “European Communist parties and the caretaker government work closely together”.

He said some political parties and the establishment had “scuttled plans to introduce electronic voting”.

Khan also termed the upcoming Senate polls as a “fixed game”. Elections for the Senate, the upper house of the bicameral parliament, will be held on April 2.

In response to a question about whether relations with the government were being mended, Khan responded that reconciliation depended on an impartial audit of the elections.

Khan said the current government was unsustainable due to the fragile economy. He dismissed criticism that PTI had brought the country to the brink of default.

The former prime minister said the PML-N was left with a $20 billion deficit in 2018 and had no choice but to seek help from the International Monetary Fund.

Khan said the current government has no power to carry out structural reforms. He recommended that the government seek loans if it can repay its debt.

During the hearing in the Qadir Trust case, Khan’s lawyers concluded their cross-examination of a prosecution witness, who is Qadir University’s chief financial officer.

The Al-Qadir Trust case involves a settlement of £190 million (approximately Rs 5,000 crore), which was transferred to Pakistan after the UK National Crime Agency recovered the money from a Pakistani real estate tycoon.

Instead of depositing the money into the state treasury, Khan, who was Prime Minister at the time, allowed the businessman (Riyaz) to use the money to partially repay a fine of around 45,000 rupees levied by the Supreme Court a few years ago.

In return, the tycoon reportedly gifted around 57 acres of land to a trust set up by Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi for the establishment of Qadir University in the Sohawar area of ​​Punjab’s Jhelum district.

Accountability judge Nasir Javed Rana also recorded the statement of another prosecution witness.

Khan, Bushra Bibi, her daughter and son-in-law were also present in court during the hearing. The case was adjourned to March 20.