A ‘mysterious’ fire erupted at a basement of government school in Lahore reduced to ashes articles of the Election Commission of Pakistan, which were kept there.
A PTI candidate Dr. Yasmeen had lost to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in this constituency (NA-120) with 39,000 votes whose record had now been burnt. The school is located on Retigun Road. Provincial assembly seats PA-139 and PA-140 also fall in the same area.
Sources said that various ECP articles including inks, ballot boxes and stamps were burnt in the fire.
However acting election commissioner Khaliqur Rehman claimed that no record of elections 2013 was present at the site.
The PTI leader Mehmoodur Rasheed has asked the government of Punjab to explain what caused fire in go-down of the school, resulting destruction of the election material. NA-120 is one of the prime constituencies in which PTI has alleged widespread rigging.
