Farhatullah Babar Steered ECP’s Code of Conduct in Favor

Ex-Senator Farhatullah Babar of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) misinterpreted the code of conduct issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for the Senate election.

In a tweet, the ex-senator mentioned that ECP strictly spoke against the involvement of security agencies in approaching the candidates or voters in the election.

Referring to ECP’s code of conduct, he went on to say that the commission has declared the practice as a crime.

However, when the attached document was examined, no such instructions were found in black and white.

For first time ECP declares in Code of Conduct that i) Parliament is no less sacrosanct than judiciary & army and ii) Security agencies approaching candidates/voters in elections is no less a crime than candidates approaching agencies for support. Well done. Thank you ECP pic.twitter.com/4gDUcZqAtX

— Farhatullah Babar (@FarhatullahB) February 27, 2021

Although the commission only barred the president and governors from intervening or influencing the election in any manner, the document did not mention the word agency (ies).

It only highlighted the people in the service of Pakistan but it did not explicitly specify the name of ‘agencies’ as claimed by Farhatullah Babar.

The political observers believe that it could be a personal standpoint of the PPP worker or he just misconstrued the term, ‘Pakistan service’.

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However, they added that opening down such a sensitive unsubstantiated fact should not have come from a senior politician.

Some assume the proposition from the ex-senator was conducive to a no-love-lost relationship between Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the establishment over the years.

However, the political observers are convinced that a senior politician like Farhtullah Babar should avoid stating unsubstantiated claims which hold no value until in black and white.