National February 23, 2021 LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq said country had been suffering from the electoral rigging over the last 73 years under different pretexts like the recent “votes missing in fog” in the bye elections, requiring urgent and comprehensive electoral reforms. If the reforms were not brought immediately, then more ‘fog incidents’ could happen in the coming general elections, completely alienating masses from the electoral process, he said while talking to media at Mansoora Monday. “A powerful, independent Election Commission is the need of the hour. Political parties should sit together for election reforms,” he said, warning that using delaying tactics in delivery of results, disappearance of polling staff, violence, and use of wealth, influence and government machinery were the tactics which had been adopted in all polls. He said there must be check on these evil tactics to secure the future of coming generations. Fair and free polls were the only way forward to put the country on track. He doubted the sincerity of the political parties to achieve the objective of free polls, saying “in fact the political elite ruling the country for decades are alien to the concept of free election and durable democracy. —Correspondent