Posts Tagged ‘Elections’

Twenty years after the peaceful split of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of Russia has made significant gains in the Russian parliamentary elections and has doubled the share of its votes. In the Sunday's elections, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has returned to power with a slashed majority in the State Duma, [...]

Imran Khan’s successful public rally in Lahore has made many tongues to wag. Political analysts are now forced to revise their earlier estimates about Imran Khan’s potential to create a niche for himself in the existing political set up in Pakistan. The most notable impact of Imran Khan’s jalsa has been on the politics of Punjab, especially [...]

On 2nd May 2011 evening, PPP ultimately joined hands with PML(Q) and offered them 18 slots in executive allocating them different assignments, mostly carrying ministreal perks. The young generation knows them little from days of Gen Musharraf when they remained in shared power with a military ruler but more after assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto [...]

Har nayay din ke saath humaaray munsif-e-aala urf Tunno aik aisa tabsara kertay hain ke ke har jamhooriyat pasand shehri baithay bithhaye bilbila uthta hai. Lagta hai Musharraf ki kitab Kakkoo kay Kaarnamay (jisay baaz loag ghalti se In the Line of Fire bhi kehtay hain) ke baad ab nayi kitab Tunnoo ke Tabsaray bhi jald shaya hogi. ہر نئے [...]

Aamir Mughal has compiled some excellent resources on his blog providing evidence of Pakistan Army's (read ISI) historical illegal interference in the process of elections and the way our saviours in Pakistan Army distributed funds, threatened political opponents and rigged the elections in order to achieve certain intended results, i.e., to bag [...]

My goodness the names keep changing but the song remains the same. Minus-One Formula became Bangladesh Model which became Caretaker Government which became Midterm Elections which became Patriotic Generals which became French Revolution which has now become Technocrats. Why don’t we just call it what it is – the pipe dream of ‘Ministers in [...]

Mustafa Sarwar of RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan spoke today with Jed Ober, chief of staff of U.S.-based Democracy International, which sent a team of observers to monitor Afghanistan's second parliamentary elections on September 18. Democracy International focuses on democracy and governance programs around the world for the U.S. Agency for [...]

Kabul - Afghan government officials said Saturday that parliamentary elections were 'successful,' despite Taliban attacks aimed at disrupting the vote. 'I want to congratulate all Afghans on the completion of successful parliamentary elections,' Fazel Ahmad Manawi, chief of the Independent Elections Commission, a body that conducted Saturday's [...]

Read Part 1 of this article here This article is part of the same article posted here with the title "Political Homosexuality". I have posted it as a separate article for its comments on Establishment equations and understanding of Pakistan power politics.(aliarqam) Time to rethink the concept of the powerful establishment in Pakistan. [...]

Source: Kashif Naseer ka blog کپتان مگراصول پسند بہت ہیں لاہور کے سیاسی منظرنامہ پر ضمنی انتخابات کا شوربہت سی نئی تلخیوں کے ساتھ تھم چکا ہے۔ واقعات بتا رہے ہیں کہ لیاقت بلوچ جو چاہتے تھے وہی ہوا لیکن یہ وہ [...]

By Ali Arqam Durrani The recent by-election in Punjab and Pakhtoonkha are showing people's moods, tendencies and their precedence.  Elections were conducted on the same day in both the places D I Khan (PF-65) and Gujarat (PP-111). Here we will analyze the elections,  offering some ironies and reflections. Some resemblances Both the [...]

Punjab’s ruling coalition earned nothing but embarrassment in the Gujrat by-elections. In fact the federal and Punjab governments – with all the resources and each other’s support – failed to wipe the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid out from the political scene. The PML-Q came out of the polls with charges of rigging and refused to accept [...]

We at LUBP are pleased to post the following "press release" by the DGPR (Director General Public Relations) of the PML-N's Government in Punjab, which was published in The News: Leader of defunct outfit speaks at Taseer’s election rally Updated at: 0200 PST, Wednesday, March 10, 2010 LAHORE: A leader of the defunct outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba [...]

‘PML-N teaming up with banned outfit for LG polls’ * Deputy Opp leader describes PML-N’s links with Sipah-e-Sahaba as ‘shocking’ * Ex-Rahimyar Khan nazim alleges govt will only conduct LG elections when assemblies’ tenure ends * Pervaiz Rasheed says ‘no harm’ in Sipah-e-Sahaba supporting PML-N By Rana Kashif LAHORE: The [...]

In recent by-elections in PB-25 constituency of Jafferabad (Balochistan), PPP’s Nasir Khan Jamali won by a large margin. This area is a Jamali stronghold and tribal affiliations are the determining factor in electoral victory in Balochistan. However, the most surprising aspect of this election was that a lower middle class woman, Mai Jori, chose [...]

Dear people of Pakistan, We hereby now announce to have national holidays for four consecutive days (starting from Wednesday, so that you may plan the vacations for 5 days including the adjoining Sunday). To make your vacations more enjoying and electrifying, we are announcing the celebration of national games i.e. general elections in the [...]

The JI and PTI's popularity remains limited to a handful to carefully selected talkshows. Realpolitik The recently concluded by-election in Rawalpindi’s NA-55 constituency, the interest and voter turnout it generated, was a healthy sign for the democratic process. It clearly reflected the fact that democracy is alive and kicking. Much has [...]

The recently concluded NA-55 by-elections in the heart of Rawalpindi were highly capricious in many ways- it was the finale political Armageddon of the shrewd Sheikh of Potohar in which he tried to play all his tricks but to no avail, Punjab government wanted to win it at every cost, as victory was important for the ruling PMLN to redo its [...]

PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif addressing a public gathering during by-elections campaign in constituency NA-123. -APP According to the sources, Nawaz Sharif addressed party workers on Grand Trunk Road near University of Engineering and Technology. While Nawaz made a case for his own leadership in overcoming the problems of the common man, sources [...]

Thanks: Dawn.com, Monday, 01 Mar, 2010 Advocates of democracy claim that it protects property rights, promoting an environment of collective growth. - File photo A passionate debate comparing and contrasting the performance of Pakistan’s democratic and dictatorial regimes has been raging recently in various discussion forums. A [...]

NA55 Elections - Imran Khan's PTI Contesting - Campaigning and Appearing on 30+ News channels - For 30+ Hours each - STILL - Getting Less than 30 Votes in each Polling Station - Total of 3000 Votes - That is Less than 3% of total votes casted. Imran Khan and his political co-artists ran more of a campaign against the Presidency on pretext of [...]

Our fellow bloggers at Cafe Pyala have recently exposed the shameful role of Geo TV and Hamid Mir in the recent by-elections in NA-55. Nadeem Paracha too has written an article on this topic, an excerpt from which is being provided below. Tele vs. Tulli By Nadeem Paracha During the Musharraf dictatorship, the country’s leading private [...]

Related article: Imran Khan will sweep next elections – by Abdul Nishapuri Here is an overview of unofficial results of NA-55 by-elections announced by the returning officer: 1) 63888 Shakeel Awan (PML-N) 2) 42530 Sheikh Rasheed (AML) 3) 5020 Barister Danish (IND) 3) 3109 Dr Kamal (JI) 5) 3105 Ejaz Khan Jazi (PTI) Obviously there [...]

If you go to the NA-55 area of Rawalpindi these days, you will be struck by the billboards which show Sheikh Rashid with Benazir. The impression one will get is that Sheikh Rashid stands for Benazir. He, for his part, has let it be known that he has prayed at the site of Benazir’s martyrdom near Liaqat Bagh. The leadership of the Pakistan [...]

After a lot of confusion and campaigning against the fate of local government bodies, the Punjab Government finally brought the local government amendment bill in the parliament this month. The new bill was passed by PML-N with majority votes despite opposition's protest. The new Punjab  local government bill is a violation of the national [...]

Women's disenfranchisement Election observers have reported that thousands of women from Lakki Marwat were denied their right to vote during Wednesday’s by-election for PF-75, which was also marked by procedural irregularities and illegal campaigning. Having visited the majority of polling stations, the Free and Fair Election Network [...]

Last week, Shahbaz Shairf finally announced that Nawaz Sharif will not contest the NA 123 election. The official reason given in this regard is that Nawaz Sharif wants to give chance to a party worker who struggled against the Musharaf regime . But sadly Election commission has disqualified an ex-N league activist Chaudhry Akhtar Rasool [...]

On Wednesday January 13, the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari arrived at Lahore. The city that is believed to be strictly the opposition's (PML-N) turf. The irony was that both the leaders of PML-N, the Sharif brothers, were surprisingly not in town. The President, who is also the Co-Chairman of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, [...]

Sunday, 15 Nov, 2009 (Dawn)'(MQM and JUI-F) are already in coalition with PPP in centre, so we look forward to join hands with them’: PPP leader. Above: Syed Mehdi Shah, President PPP Gilgit-Baltistan, greets PM Gilani during campaigning ahead of the November 12 elections. —Photo by APPISLAMABAD: After emerging as the largest party in the [...]

Smokers’ Corner: Speaking fireNadeem F. PARACHASunday, 15 Nov, 2009 A blogger makes a valid point in a recent blog on dawn.com. He suggests that the reason why recent election rallies in Gilgit-Baltistan are so diagonally different from those held in the rest of Pakistan is perhaps due to the lack of (more...)

PPP is clearly the most popular party, the only major political party which has roots in all parts of the federation. The same fact is once again evident in the unofficial results of the Gilgit-Baltistan elections. Here are the results so far:Seats announced: 21PPP: 12PML-N: 2PML-Q: 1MQM: 1JUI: 1Independent: 4Unofficial results of G-B [...]

Gilani declares Gilgit, Skardu ‘major cities’By Our Correspondent (Dawn)Wednesday, 11 Nov, 2009 SKARDU: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday promised free, fair and transparent elections in Gilgit-Baltistan and a level playing field for all political (more...)

Wednesday, 07 Oct, 2009 (Dawn) THE ambivalence of the PML-N on whether its leader, Nawaz Sharif, will participate in the upcoming by-elections, scheduled for Nov 7 barring a court order to postpone them, is very peculiar. Refusing to commit one way or another — the PML-N claims that it will participate in the by-elections, but Mr Sharif will [...]

* Saudi king urged Nawaz to abide by deal * By-elections delay sought to accommodate Nawaz, not due to security concerns JEDDAH: The government has decided not to take any action against former president Pervez Musharraf and has forwarded a clear message in this regard to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, sources told [...]

PTI CEC stops Imran to contest in NA 123 By-electionLAHORE : Central Executive Council of Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf (PTI) has stopped Imran Khan to contest in By-election from NA 123 here on Saturday.According to details, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf announced three names for the By-election of NA 123 in which Imran Khan, Mian Mehmood Ur Rasheed and [...]

A book written by Mehmood Sham. Mehmood Sham, a senior journalist who is very well known for very well balanced journalism, has written a book Upset 2008 in which he has covered some positive and negative aspects of Musharraf's leadership which are usually ignored by his opponents in politics and media. The book also exposes the reality of the [...]

Here is a proposal by Haroon Rasheed in today's Jang:If what HR claims is true, Imran Khan should stand for elections in NA 123 and NA 55 as hundreds of thousands of his (imaginary?) voters are waiting for (more...)

Eyewitness Iran: What is the true character of the demonstrationsBy: Mazda MajidiImperialists do not embrace true revolutionary movementsThe eyes of the world have focused on Iran since the June 12 presidential election. The turnout was (more...)

EDITORIAL COMMENT | Double TroubleIt's a double whammy in India's neighbourhood: A mutiny in Bangladesh and a judicial coup in Pakistan. Pakistan's supreme court has upheld an order banning opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his (more...)