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Pakistan official admits involvement in rigging election results

Supporters of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party protest against the alleged election rigging, in Karachi [Rizwan Tabassum/AFP]

A senior bureaucrat in Pakistan has said he helped rig Pakistan’s elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner.

On Saturday, Liaqat Ali Chattha, commissioner of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the country’s powerful military has its headquarters, said he would hand himself over to police and step down from his position.

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