Pakistan Elections 2013 Archive
PCO Judiciary and Imran Khan’s political immaturity legitimize PML N’s 2013 election rigging: Inspite of overwhelming circumstance to the contrary, Imran Khan and his PTI continued to place their trust in a compromised judiciary. This week’s Judicial Commission report absolving PML N and its media, judicial and Taliban allies of rigging once
خواجہ سعد فریق کے لیے بے لوث دھاندلی – عمار کاظمی: “ایک ایک آدمی نے چھ چھ وٹوں پر انگوٹھے لگائے۔ فارم چودہ پر جعلی دستخط تھے۔ تاہم سعد رفیق یا الیکشن عملہ کے دھاندلی میں ملوث ہونے کا کوئی ثبوت نہیں ملا” حلقہ ایک سو پچیس کی دھاندلی کا
دو ہزار تیرہ کے انتخابات کی آیئنی اور قانونی حیثیت مشکوک ہو چکی ہے – کنور دلشاد: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-10-14&edition=LHR&id=38594_72996846
عمران خان ، آخری امید ؟ از عمار چودھری: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-09-12&edition=LHR&id=36819_56245616 PTI Chairman Imran Khan Speech,9:30pm – 9th… by zemtv
طارق ملک کو نکالنے کے بعد مسلم لیگ نواز کو نادرا سے بہتر نتیجے ملنے لگے ہیں۔ – از عمار کاظمی: طارق ملک کو نکالنے کے بعد مسلم لیگ نواز کو نادرا سے بہتر نتیجے ملنے لگے ہیں۔ طارق ملک کے وقت میں یہ سنا تھا کہ نادرا کے پاس ایسا سسٹم آ چکا ہے جس سے دو ہفتے
مولانا فضل الرحمن انتخابات میں دھاندلی کے معاملہ پر نواز شریف کا ساتھ کیوں دے رہے ہیں، اس کا جواب یہ ویڈیو ہے – خرم زکی: شرعی دھاندلی کے ایمان افروز مناظر ۔ جمعیت علماء اسلام زندہ باد – یہ دیکھیں کیوں کر مولوی ڈیزل المعروف فضل الرحمن دیوبندی، آج وزیراعظم نواز شریف کے ساتھ ہیں اور کیوں مولوی ڈیزل اس دھاندلی سے بھر پور
Widespread election rigging: Main architect shameless Iftikhar Chaudhry – by Basit Umar: Former Additional Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Afzal Khan has said that former Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had appointed returning officers (ROs) for the election duties. Former bureaucrat revealed that there was massive corruption and rigging in
What next: Najam Sethi’s latest sophistry in defense of PML-N: In Najam Sethi’s “What Next” (The Friday Times, August 22, 2014), he tries hard to be neutral but in his typical style, he cannot resist making some ridiculous assertions. He also carefully wipes out any mention of his own
جھرلو 2013 – الیکشن کمیشن کے سابق سیکرٹری محمد افضل خان کے الزامات: ایک ذاتی تجربہ – تنویر اختر: افضل خان قذافی، سابق ایڈیشنل سیکرٹری الیکشن کمیشن .. بے شک مردہ بولا کفن پهاڑ کے، لیکن کافی سے زیادہ “سچ” بول گیا .. جی ہاں، یہ سوال اپنی جگہ کہ خان صاحب کا “سچ” اب تک سات پردوں
Repeating 1977 in 2014 is Not the Answer – by Shoaib Mir: After the ZA Bhutto-led PPP swept the 1977 national elections, the 9-party opposition alliance PNA alleged there was mass rigging, and boycotting provincial polls went on to stage a protracted violent protest particularly in Karachi and Lahore (there were
Rs. 20 billion defamation notice to Imran Khan: Is Iftikhar Chaudhry serious?: A man not even worth Rs. 20 demands Rs. 20 billion for defamation? Is he serious? It must be very frustrating for former Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for not being in the news through his famous constipated thoughts
PPP regrets proposing Najam Sethi’s name for caretaker CM Punjab, condemns his role in rigging in elections: PPP Punjab senior leader Raja Riaz Ahmed has demanded fresh elections under an impartial Election Commission and neutral caretaker up. Exposing the alleged role of former caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi behind rigging in the province, Raja Riaz
PPP: no resurrection sans introspection — by Babar Ayaz: The biggest shortcoming of the PPP, analysts believe, is that there was no leader to lead its election campaign. Zardari did not allow any credible PPP leader to emerge Like well-bred Pakistanis, most PPP leaders are putting up a
Why did PPP lose elections 2013? Interview with Aamir Hussaini: LUBP is currently conducting a series of interviews with Pakistan Peoples Party’s long-time supporters (Jiyalas) and independent political analysts to have their views on the party’s electoral debacle in 2013. The aim of this series is to provide constructive
Why did PPP lose elections 2013? Interview with Rusty Walker (a U.S. citizen): LUBP is currently conducting a series of interviews with Pakistan Peoples Party’s long-time supporters (Jiyalas) and independent political analysts to have their views on the party’s electoral debacle in 2013. The aim of this series is to provide constructive
Why did PPP lose elections 2013? Interview with Ali Wahab: LUBP is currently conducting a series of interviews with Pakistan Peoples Party’s long-time supporters (Jiyalas) and independent political analysts to have their views on the party’s electoral debacle in 2013. The aim of this series is to provide constructive
Imran Khan announces protest campagian against rigging in elections: LAHORE (10 June 2013): Showing his distrust in the institutions of judiciary and Election Commission, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has threatened to launch a protest campaign after Eid if its reservations about the election results are not removed. “We’ll take
ایجنسیوں اور تحریک انصاف کی حمایت کے باوجود سپاہ صحابہ کے تکفیری دہشتگرد اورنگزیب فاروقی کو الیکشن میں شکست: اسلام ٹائمز: سندھ اسمبلی کی نشست پی ایس 128 کے 6 پولنگ اسٹیشنوں پر انتخابات میں جماعت اسلامی اور تحریک انصاف کی غیر اعلانیہ حمایت کے باوجود اورنگزیب فاروقی کو چند ووٹ سے شکست ہوگئی۔ سندھ اسمبلی کی نشست
Why did PPP lose elections 2013? Interview with Junaid Qaiser: LUBP is currently conducting a series of interviews with Pakistan Peoples Party’s long-time supporters (Jiyalas) and independent political analysts to have their views on the party’s electoral debacle in 2013. The aim of this series is to provide constructive
Why did PPP lose elections 2013? Interview with Humza Ikram: LUBP is currently conducting a series of interviews with Pakistan Peoples Party’s long-time supporters (Jiyalas) and independent political analysts to have their views on the party’s electoral debacle in 2013. The aim of this series is to provide constructive
پیپلزپارٹی کا زوال – عدنان عادل: پنجاب میں پیپلزپارٹی کے زوّال کی سب سے بڑی وجہ جناب آصف علی زرداری کی سیاسی حکمت عملی ہے۔ شکست کے بعد اب وہ بلاول ہائوس میں بیٹھ کر پیپلزپارٹی کے غریب کارکنوں کی سرپرستی کرنے اور پارٹی کو
Ludhianvi vows to go to assemblies, despite losing elections – by Rana Tanveer: Radical Deobandi cleric Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi (C) addresses his supporters. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE LAHORE: Despite losing the elections in NA-89 Jhang, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) Chief Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi said that he would go to the assemblies, and anyone who tried
الیکشن کے بعد کا پاکستان – از حق گو: گیارہ مئی کے الیکشن ملکی تاریخ کے پہلے الیکشن تھے جن میں اقتدار ایک منتخب شدہ جمہوری حکومت سے ایک منتخب شدہ جمہوری حکومت کو منتقل ہوا – ایک ایسا ملک جہاں سیکورٹی اسٹیبلشمنٹ جمہوری حکومتوں کو گھر بھیجنے
What the PPP failed to do, and what we should expect from the PMLN – by Rusty Walker: The PML-N has won. We can no longer blame the PPP for what they did not do, when they had the chance. Political parties ran on what the PPP was unable to do. Let us celebrate then, what the Pakistani
Leaked memo: Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s letter to Saudi King Abdullah – by Hakim Hazik: There are pockets of resistance where the burger fitna is still alive and the mummy daddy jihadis are waging a war against the Ummah. Very soon, inshallah they will be brought under the control of the righteous Punjab Police
پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کے جیالوں نے تیر کو بوسہ دے کر بلے پر مہر کیوں لگائی – منو بھائی: جیالے – نئے اور پرانے – منظور اعجاز
Romancing the devil: Understanding Nawaz Sharif’s advocacy of the Taliban – by Mahpara Qalandar: Quite a few liberals including some of us at LUBP are unhappy with Nawaz Sharif for calling for a dialogue with the Taliban. It has been said that by desiring to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table, he
Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan must beware of negotiations with the Taliban – by Ejaz Haider: Editor’s note: A rare piece of Ejaz Haider that one may largely agree with. Although Ejaz Haider continues to describe Taliban as TTP (ISI’s preferred discourse to distinguish between good (Afghan) Taliban and bad (Pakistani TTP) Taliban, his arguments
عوامی نیشنل پارٹی کی شکست ۔چند معروضات- از زلان مومند: مسیح الافاغنہ باچاخانؒ کے ایک پیرو کار کی حیثیت سے عوامی نیشنل پارٹی کی انتخابی شکست کو روزمرہ کی دیگر ناکامیوں اور ناآسودہ خواہشات کے سلسلے کی ایک کڑی کہنا نہایت ہی دشوار ہے ، اگرچہ ایک نہایت ہی
Empty polling stations in Balochistan – by Juma Baloch: Pakistani election 2013 in Balochistan, have been widely viewed by international and local political analysts as a referendum between those who ask for Baloch rights within Pakistani framework and those who seek an independence Baloch state. Baloch nationalist political
میاں نواز شریف اور اسٹبلشمنٹ: میاں نواز شریف اور اسٹبلشمنٹ میاں محمد نواز شریف چند دنوں کے بعد اس ملک کے وزیر اعظم ہوں گے-ان کی جماعت تیسری بار حکومت سنبھالے گی-اس دوران ان کی حکومت کی پالیسیوں کے بارے میں پورے ملک کے
PPP lost, PTI gained Shia votes – by Faizan Bangash: Source: The News, 7 May 2013 (with minor additions and edits) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was able to attract a section of Shia vote bank which has traditionally been voting for centre-left leaning Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)
Solidarity Appeal! – by H.A. Khan: In order to support the Struggle of Comrade Ali Wazir and the Marxists of Pakistan please send the below model letter to the following addresses as well as your local Pakistani Embassy. Email the letter to: cec@ecp.gov.pk masoud.malik@ecp.gov.pk and
Losing Tsunami Style – by Arsalan Riyasat: The attitude adopted by PTI’s workers over losing the elections in Karachi and Punjab is childish to say the least. Although the indiscipline, rowdism and lack of respect of PTI’s supporters towards their opponents is nothing new, they seem
HDP, electoral defeats and dirty politics – by Naqi. H.: The voters of PB-2 once again rejected Hazara Democratic Party in May 11 elections by electing Majlis-e Wahadat-e Muslimeen’s candidate. This was HDP’s second consecutive defeat in elections ever since it was made in 2003. But like 2008 defeat,
Every party’s hardcore supporters view the supporters of other parties as ignorant, irrational and malicious, with an ethnic/cultural stereotype to boot – by Saroop Ijaz: The writer is a lawyer and partner at Ijaz and Ijaz Co in Lahore saroop.ijaz@tribune.com.pk The chief minister (CM)-designate for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) has already made the silliest statement for the next few years, or at least, let us hope so;
Balochistan: Nawaz Sharif directly in partnership with the ISI – by Amir Mateen: PML (N)’s Balochistan Chief, Sanaullah Zehri’s electoral alliance with ISI-backed Shafiq Mengal group has thrown Balochistan politics into a tailspin. This may have seriously threatened the security and political stability of the already violence prone province. This also