The PTI has warned voters against “two new rigging methods” that it claims may be used to “reduce voter turnout” on February 8.

In a post on X, it said that in the case of a challan while driving, the police may ask the driver for their original CNIC instead of their driving license so that they would be “deprived of casting a vote on polling day due to lack of an original CNIC”.

It further claimed that voters belonging to large families were being contacted by “unknown or known phone numbers and being told that their original CNIC is being blocked due to the existence of a fake CNIC”.

The PTI urged voters to remain alert and “not hand over their original CNIC to anyone under any circumstances”.