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However, on 22 February, Chattha retracted his claims of election rigging and issued an apology to the ECP, saying that the PTI offered a strong position for making the allegations. [64] [65] [66] He also said that his mention of the Chief Justice of Pakistan was “taken to create mistrust in general public” against Qazi Faiz Isa. [67]
Pakistan's benchmark share index fell 3.4% on Monday, its first day of trading after the results of the Feb. 8 vote. ... of rigging in the polls," it said in its first response to the accusations ...
The list includes several publicly listed companies, including Balfour Beatty, Kier Group and Carillion, with 80 of the firms have already admitted participating in some form of bid-rigging, or have applied for leniency in return for assisting the OFT. The allegations centre around "cover pricing", in which firms secretly agreed the prices they ...
The Supreme Court's ruling in the Asghar Khan case was a significant judicial acknowledgment of election rigging. [5] Mazhar Abbas referred to the 1990 elections as "the mother of all rigging." [5] In addition to financial manipulation, there were efforts to tarnish Benazir Bhutto's public image through character assassination and negative ...
By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE (Reuters) - Pakistan's main opposition party called on Sunday for a judicial investigation into what it said was rigging at an election this week that it lost. During ...
Bid rigging is a fraudulent scheme in a procurement action which enables companies to submit non-competitive bids. It can be performed by corrupt officials, by firms in an orchestrated act of collusion , or by officials and firms acting together.
The former director of the Chatham County Housing Authority was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Wednesday for a bid-rigging scheme that awarded contracts to friends and relatives and paid out ...
The Election Commission of Pakistan v. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , informally referred to as the PTI intra-party elections case , was a court case which involved a three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP), comprising Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa , Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar , and Justice Musarrat Hilali .