Fawad is looking for allegations against Fafen's ex-chief

Fawad is looking for allegations against Fafen's ex-chief

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Fawad Chaudhry, said on Saturday that the former head of the Free and Fair Election Network held an anti-government press conference at which he made serious allegations regarding funding and labor.

In a tweet, the minister said he had advised the economic department and the FIA ​​to look into the allegations and let the law take its course.

Fafen, meanwhile, welcomed any review, investigation and audit and rejected the so-called malicious smear campaign and unfounded allegations of one of its former members who were banned from the network for misconduct a few days ago, according to a press release published by the Fafen board here on Saturday. The statement said that the allegations and allegations that Sarwar Bari, National Coordinator of the Pattan Development Organization for nearly three decades, made at the press conference in Islamabad as mala-fide, which are only intended to the integrity, credibility and Unit of Pakistan's largest non-partisan network of civil society organizations.

 

Baris allegations followed his and his organization's termination of Fafen's basic membership a few days ago after failing to provide evidence of similar claims and his campaign against the network since October 2021. His resignation was mutually approved by the 20-member National Council of Fafen according to its established rules and procedures. Bari no longer represents Fafen and its positions and should not use the network's name for its social and media legitimacy, the statement said.

Fafen, who receives administrative, financial and technical support from the Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA), has always been transparent in its work and is open to any kind of review, investigation and review of its data, reports, finances and decisions - Manufacturing. He also notes with concern that Baris’s efforts ahead of the 2023 general election may just be an attempt to harm Pakistan's most credible, evidence-based vote in elections based on flimsy, frivolous, baseless and nonsensical notions that no court has to harm the law.

Fafen will use all legal options to protect the network from such malicious attacks, the statement said. Previously, Fafen's former Secretary-General Sarwar Bari had questioned the Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA) about spending funds on ECP workers and their families, adding that TDEA was taking funds for travel and accommodation from without board approval ECP employees and family members.

Bari said that as a result of the investigation into the 2013 election, the Fafens saw that the TDEA had committed fraud in a number of constituencies.

He claimed that the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) would help ensure high levels of transparency in the elections and end the involvement of election officers (POs) by 99 percent.

He said it was an obligationof the ECP to use EVMs, launch a biometric system, and give foreign Pakistanis the right to vote through internet voting.

Now he said that a law onthe use of EVMs has also been passed by parliament and that this technology will be used in the upcoming general election.