The month of December is felt as a very lovely month as winter season is in its full swing with a feeling of joys and happiness and with warm sentiments all around Pakistan. But 3 years ago we had witnessed this day to be remembered as the historical black day in the history of my country when the most beloved leader of millions hearts and masses was martyred in Rawalpindi.

Benazir Bhutto the BB Sahiba is always remembered as the most visionary and the courageous leader in the history of global politics. We cannot find a single example of a women politician with so much grace and vision whom had been greeted by the toiling and poor working class of Pakistan not once but twice as when she was welcomed by 1 million people in Lahore in 1986 and then by 3 million in Karachi in 2007. Such was the charisma and vision of great BB Sahiba and the warm connectivity of masses with her.

Our great Marxist teacher Comrade Dr. Lal Khan truly said that people didnt went to see BB Sahiba in Karachi rather than to make her felt about their miseries and problems with whom they were being faced at that time, further he said that the so called deal with US and Pakistan’s powerful power sections was torned by the masses under their foot on that day and that presence also had made BB Sahiba more courageous and more confident with her people.

Now today when i see that still investigations are going on and still PPP masses and workers are desperate to know about the names of the killers, it make me a bit surprise that why we are still not have the courage to say truth, having said that i know why BB Sahiba was martyred and some reasons can be given.

1- She was martyred because that so called deal was torned by the 3 million people under their feet on 27 Dec, 2007.

2-She began to radicalize and moving on that way of radicalization principles on which PPP was formed in 1968-69.

3- The slogans of socialism could be heard all over again.

4- People felt themselves to be empowered again with their strong determination and voices.

5- The US imperialism and powerful sections of Pakistan felt BB Sahiba as a threat to their imperialist and capitalist agenda.

6- She began to talk for the common people and their interests rather that the interests of imperialism.

7- She had refused to work for Imperialist and capitalist agenda and determined to take Pakistan towards the progressive nation.

8-She had refused to bow in front of the rigid and Islamic forces and shown strong strength to fight against the talibanization.

9- She had reiterated to clean the process of talibanization from the soil of Pakistan as she commented in her last speech in Rawalpindi.

10- She had told to take Pakistan as a great nation as the progressive nation with all power.

11-She had been changing herself with the lines of radicalization and to follow the footsteps and slogans on which PPP was formed in its true spirits.

I miss you a lot BB Sahiba and i know that one day the sun will rise with the light when those dreams and hopes will be fulfilled in their true spirits for which you and the masses of my country had seen together and sacrificed their lives together for this great mission.

THE DREAM OF HOPE, BB SAHIBA, WE SALUTE YOU.

THE DAUGHTER OF THE EAST AND THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, WE SALUTE YOU.

Since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, this act was again repeated by some jiala like people within the PPP by renaming almost every place, specially in Rawalpindi. First the Rawalpindi General Hospital, then the long old famous ‘Murree Road, then Islamabad Airport. The road remained as Murree Road, till now, Islamabad Airport still being called, Islamabad Airport regardless of the insignia over it because you cannot force people. CAA must have spent millions of tax payers money over administrative changes, just for the change in name.

Rawalpindi General Hospital, now known as Benazir Bhutto Hospital is in the worst form then ever than any other government hospital in Rawalpindi. This lucky hospital is situated right in the middle of the city and can not be termed as an outskirter and ignored. Even DHQ and Holy Family Hospitals are in far better form than RGH or BBH.

Just by naming the hospital on a tallest dignitary of Pakistani politics haven’t changed the status quo of the hospital till now, rather the hospital status has further gone down below the level of an ordinary BHU (Basic Health Unit) situated in any village. Contaminated filth crosses the threshold of any prescribed level of health and safety (in Pakistan that level is already far below the WHO health and safety levels).

Right after renaming the hospital, millions of rupees must have been spent, from the pockets of the tax payers, over the administrative changes like re-printing of hospital records, papers, employee records and other hospital name tags, etc, etc. Much must have gone into pockets of some. Important to note that the name ‘RGH’ has not completely been removed from various name plates within the same hospital, like the management is waiting for another government to come and re-instate the former name ASAP.

One can find huge crowds of poor and serious patients and their attendants ‘residing’ in the out side park of the hospital because, either there are no beds available or there are no appointments established, yet, with the suitable seniors doctors for serious patients. Poor people are just residing under the tree shadows under open sky for their turns since days, without food and water. Many people find suitable residing places within wards, corridors and other inside places of the hospital.

The ward’s situation is at its extreme where the heaps of filth (both organic and inorganic including blood, waste bloody bandages, empty pints, used syringes, etc) under the very beds of patients and in ward’s corners, is prominent by eyes and nose as well due to pungent toxic smell all around.

The most amazing scene was observed in the ICU, where same kind of filth can be seen along with cats bearing their kittens in some broken closets within ICU ward. The cats are always come and go easily and are allowed in these places as they find plenty of eatables and cool environment due to air conditioners to raise their kids. Mosquitoes (could be normal and dengue), rats and flies, in a health facility, is a mockery towards the people us all, who are readily eager to name a place on our futile political likings for show offs and never think over changing the real status quo of the place so that the name may be revered for ever which was to be the real purpose.

If the PPP government was so keen to remember their, once great leader, have seriously spent over the real internal and external well being of the hospital, the great name of Benazir Bhutto may have cherished for a long time, along with the hospital. Now, even a layman can understand that re-naming of RGH was simply a cheap political gimmick by some ‘yes ministers’ at that time who never turned their eyes over a hospital first and the last time, when BB was brought there after the assassination.

Instead of again building a shrine in memory of Benazir Bhutto in Islamabad, by spending millions of rupees, PPP government should first take visible steps to upgrade the status of the hospital they named on a legacy. At least this act will gather enough honest prays and prayers for her soul’s peace, which is more useful than a simple show off practice.

I request rather insist the concerned dumb ‘yes ministers’ of the current government specially the PM who ordered the change of name, either to immediately change the status quo of the Hospital with immediate effect, so that it may represent the name it is bearing now OR just re-instate the name of RGH. At least, the name of Benazir Bhutto may not be made a point of ridicule due to the acts or ignorance of such ‘Hollow Yes Ministers’ clustering around the party centre now a days. Just refrain from doing such acts of futile naming of places you can not embellish for good, just for the sake of your own fame, pompous loyalty or showoff.

By: Tariq Islam

I refer to Fatima Bhuttos’s book Songs of Blood and Sword. I feel it is incumbent upon me to set the record straight on at least one story.

Fatima tells us how Z.A. Bhutto wrote to his son Murtaza to go to Afghanistan to set up a militant base for waging a war on the military dictator, Zia.

I challenge anyone to produce that letter. Because there is none!

The fact of the matter is that at Mir Murtaza’s request I flew from London (where I was a student at the time) to Islamabad on March 24, 1979, to meet my uncle ZAB and convey Murtaza’s urgent messages.

The messages were to seek permission for Murtaza to base himself in Afghanistan to wage a guerrilla war on the invitation of the then Afghan government headed by Hafizullah Amin.

The other message was from PLO leader Yasir Arafat who viewed Bhutto as the soldier of Islam and was ready to use his resources to spring him from Rawalpindi’s central jail.

I first met my uncle in his death cell on March 27. I was allowed only 30 minutes and we had to whisper across the cell bars (I was not permitted inside the tiny cell) as it was heavily bugged and police and military officers stood all around us, straining to hear.

ZAB flatly refused both options. On the case of Murtaza’s relocation to Kabul, ZAB flew into a rage. His words, which I recall clearly till this day, were “Did I send Mir to Harvard and to Oxford to learn about all this stuff? Already they are calling me a murderer and a smuggler (on account of the book If I am assassinated, which was claimed to have been smuggled out of prison to be published abroad).

“Next, they will be calling me a terrorist. Tell him that I forbid him to go to Kabul. No matter what happens to me, he should concentrate on his studies and complete his course at Oxford”.

I had to get the message across to Mir but in those days, far from the mobile phones we have today, there was no direct dialling either. Amina Piracha (PPP MNA in BB’s first government) took me to her family office, Ferozesons in Pindi , from where we booked a call to London. In coded language, I gave Mir his father’s message.

Mir was extremely distraught and disappointed and pleaded with me to seek another appointment with ZAB. “You have to convince my father. You must do it for my sake. I don’t care how you do it, but please don’t come back empty-handed,” he urged.

I managed, with great difficulty, to see ZAB again on March 30 (Apart from BB and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, I was the last to see him in his death cell before the execution). I conveyed Mir’s desperate message again. The reaction was the same, but I persisted. Time was running out. In sheer frustration, ZAB remarked with great prescience: “I think Mir has boxed himself into a corner. He has made some commitments to the Afghans and is finding it difficult to back out now. Tell him to go if he wishes but I am not at all happy. The Afghans are too shrewd; they have fooled two superpowers for so many years. They are master diplomats and schemers and they will manipulate Mir for their own reasons …, and sell him down the river when it suits them. He must be very careful in what he does and says. I leave him in God’s hands. But ask him to complete his studies at Oxford”.

The much quoted man in the book, Suhail Sethi (who also has been my very good friend for nearly 40 years), was in Pindi at the time. We went out to eat dinner together that evening, and I told him about the meeting.

He can set the record straight even at this late stage. I flew to London on March 31. I conveyed all the messages to Mir. Bashir Riaz (Mir’s aide and press spokesman and subsequently one of BB’s closest aides) and the former Punjab Governor, Mr Ghulam Mustafa Khar, were witnesses.

On April 4 Mr Bhutto was executed.

It is not only a distortion of history but also a great travesty to accuse a statesman and visionary of ZAB’s stature of condoning a bloody and militant route and placing the lives of his own son in danger when he did not even call upon his party men to go out into the streets to fight the dictator.

As he said to me in jail: “I am too big a man to ask others to place themselves in jeopardy so that my life may be saved. I will go down in history. Songs will be written about me.”

TARIQ ISLAM
Via email

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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 been said about the contest, but whereas the media’s focus remained on the main contestants — PML-N’s Shakeel Awan and former PML-N heavyweight, Shaikh Rasheed Ahmed — a look at the performances of some other contestants went missing.

There were a total of 22 contestants in the constituency, a contest that was left wide open when the country’s largest political party, the PPP, opted to stay out. Apart from the two main contenders here, the participation of two other men is also of some interest. These were the candidates put forward by Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf and the Jamat-i-Islami respectively.

Both the parties belong on the rightist side of the ideological divide, with the JI representing the old strain of political Islam and the PTI characterising the ideology’s newer strains. Both have been mainstays in the popular electronic media, being the most vocal in condemning the US and Pakistan’s ‘war on terror,’ the army’s operation against extremist groups in Paktunkhwa, and the presence of some shady western security personnel in the country.

Along with a popular TV channel [Geo TV], these two parties have also been highly critical of the present coalition government headed by the PPP. In fact, both these parties have been declaring the coming of some sort of a revolution that will make Pakistan a ‘true Islamic state.’

Well, the results of the Rawalpindi by-election in which the candidate of the more moderate conservative party, the PML-N, bagged over 70,000 votes and the fact that the country’s leading secular social democratic party, the PPP, was not contesting, the JI and the PTI’s dismal performance should put a much deserved spanner in the demagogic rhetoric they have been indulging in. Both the parties’ candidates combined could not garner more than a mere five per cent of the vote. So what happened to the revolution?

The JI is well aware of its electoral weaknesses. On its own it has always failed to gather more than two to three per cent of the total votes cast across each and every election since 1970. Only when it has been part of an alliance has it been able to get a few of its candidates elected; for example, when it became part of the anti-PPP, PNA in 1977; the anti-PPP, IJI in 1988 and 1990; and the MMA in 2002. On its own, the JI remains an elitist bourgeois party representing a hybrid ideology based on puritanical Islamic strains, hyperbolic anti-Americanism and a sympathetic sentimentality towards the Taliban.

Though ideology does matter to the Pakistani voter, it has been proved over and again that the people first and foremost look for a candidate who is resourceful enough to address their issues, like unemployment, crime, violence and development in their constituency.

Despite the cynicism (especially among the chattering classes) prevalent in regard to the major parties, there is on-ground evidence to suggest that parties such as the PPP, PML-N, MQM, and the ANP do enough work on the constituency level to keep the voters interested in them.

This fact is lost to the JI, which always tries to rouse people’s interest in abstract and ideological issues that, ultimately, do not seem to count for much when it comes to election. The same is the case with Imran Khan’s PTI, a party that has had as its mentors controversial right-wing ideologues such as the former ISI chief, Hamid Gul. What’s more, Imran Khan has failed to carve out a convincing political position for himself, in spite of the fact that he was able to create a powerful launching pad for his party with his brilliant cricketing career and his tremendous efforts to construct a state-of-the-art cancer hospital in Lahore.

Instead, he chose to retain his obvious naiveté about the rugged and Machiavellian dynamics of realpolitik, and got carried away by the kind of ‘noble’ dyed-in-wool drawing-room idealism that can get him thousands of TV viewers and internet fans, but only a handful of votes.

And anyway, as regards the two parties’ loud stand on assumed corruption of politicians, the supremacy of an independent judiciary and the oh-so-dreadful war on the poor Taliban, a string of TV anchors do a better job of it. But can they win an election? Nope.

The JI is old news. But, on the other hand, if Imran Khan wants to lift his party from the fringes and propel it into electoral politics, he will have to carve out a political identity for himself instead of mimicking the demagoguery of the JI and assorted TV show hosts. As a politician, he only comes out looking more like a glamorous and modern face of the JI rather than one with his own vote-able identity.

Source: Dawn

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 contesting by polls. His shamelessly apologetic behavior towards the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan can be attributed to his infantile politics. The international community has at large appraised the success of Swat and Waziristan Operations. Distorting facts and twisting truths if could help, Hamid Mir and Shahid Masood could well have both given President Asif Ali Zardari a tough time in the Presidential poll !

Imran Khan acted more like Musharraf’s polling agent in the 2002 Referendum along with the “Judicial Saints” who assisted a Military General to rape the Constitution of Pakistan for a decade. What Imran Khan and his accomplices in crime fail to recognize is the fact that we are building a new home, not repairing the one in shambles.

PTI along with the JI and the political co-artists fervently boycotted the polls in early 2008. I suppose they stood for an Independent Interim Government under the Leadership of Baitullah Mehsud to bless Pakistan with an elected democratic government.

Mr Khan seems to be suffering from paranoia of democracy which has no room for a Captain with an eleven member cabinet to lift trophies with sheer stroke of luck. In democracy we often have to settle for less to aim for the better. It is an ever tiring struggle with no final match. In Pakistan’s political climate, democracy has no transition. It hangs till death in Garrison Jails and awaits birth as C130’s take off for Larkana every ten years.

Tehreek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan Sunday argued Nawaz Sharif to quit friendly opposition and fulfill his responsibility towards protection of people’s rights’. Indeed, ridiculing and accusing a democratically elected President in wake of by polls is quite a friendly opposition. Mr Khan is either too much caught up in Hamid Mir and Shahid Masood’s stage shows, or living in Zaid Hamid’s Lala Land to recognize the ground realities and intricacies.
Pakistan today struggles to enter the 21st Century amidst hostile situation at all fronts  from its physical to its ideological boundaries. The already weak and ailing foundations of democracy cannot withstand a push. The crumbling Federation of Pakistan cannot meet the expense of mid- term elections or judicial coups. It is akin to a man giving birth to a child.

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 news channel clearly became a hybrid of confused ideological notions when it openly gave vent to the reactionary and violent gestures exhibited by the Lal Masjid terrorists as well as to the more democratic manoeuvres of the anti-Musharraf lawyers movement.

Though roundly criticised by the liberal circles for helping trigger anger among extremist organisations incensed by the army’s action against the Lal Masjid culprits, the channel knew it had hit upon the same lucrative and populist model first pioneered by such right-wing TV networks as North America’s FOX News.

Spite sells

Apart from continuing to give prominent exposure to some of the crankiest conspiracy theorists and hate-mongering televangelists, this channel recently let loose a constant barrage of spite against Zardari – all in the name of ‘democracy’ and ‘accountability.’

There are very few Pakistanis who would be willing to defend some of Zaradri’s recent decisions, but the channel in question seemed to have crossed some vital limits while commenting on these decisions.

What causes more concern is the emerging perception that this channel has started to sound more like PMLN’s official channel. Many observers believe that the channel’s two favourites, Nawaz Sharif and the Chief Justice, are actually setting the structure and tone of their rhetoric according to the dictates and perceptions being peddled by the channel.

During the recently concluded by-election in Rawalpindi, the channel gloated that its opinion poll predicted Sheikh Rasheed’s defeat. I overheard a senior producer of the channel at the Karachi Press Club boasting that it was now his channel that was determining the electoral fate of the politicians.

Though there is nothing hidden about this channel’s both pragmatic and maybe even ideological fascination with PMLN, I wanted to tell the same gentleman that his channel has been equally smitten by characters like Imran Khan and Munawar Hussain (of the Jamaat-i-islami). Meaning, if this channel now considers itself to be a king-making machine, then why, in spite of it giving Khan and Hussain so much coverage and vent, did both the men’s parties fare so badly in the Pindi by-elections?

Both Khan and the Jamat, which have been given a tremendous run on this channel to constantly air their anti-Zaradri, anti-America, and (some would even suggest), ‘pro-Taliban’ tirades, together received a mere four per cent of the votes in the by-elections.

So, is the gloating by the channel a case of sheer delusion? Was this also why the same channel suddenly went on a rampage against Sheikh Rasheed the night before the important by-elections, maybe believing the PMLN wouldn’t be able to win without the channel’s help?

This was by far the most blatant and distasteful exhibition of partial and biased journalism, where the host of a popular talk show and his guests made sure to make Rasheed seem like the most unprincipled and dubious politician on the face of the Earth.

The guests also included established journalists, two of whom made not even a pretentious attempt to sound impartial. The worst was when the host, still unsatisfied with the circus he had enacted, invited a controversial mullah of the Lal Masjid, Maulana Aziz, to deliver a sort of fatwa against Mr. Tulli’s politics. (Aziz, if you remember, is the same brave soul who faced the army’s action against the Lal Masjid clerics and extremists by actually trying to escape from the mosque in a black burqa!)

But all was not lost on the show. At the fag end, famous newspaper columnist, Humayun Gohar, seemed to have had enough of all the ‘objective analysis’ ringing around him and was man enough to castigate the host and the channel of committing ‘target killing against the personality of Sheikh Rasheed.’

As to how much this show affected Rasheed’s performance in the election cannot be gauged, but there is no doubt about what the real idea behind the whole façade of ‘objectivity’ enacted by the show was about.

Source: Dawn

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 was a close competition between JI and PTI.

We take this opportunity to congratulate “Sir” Imran Khan and his supporters on securing more than 3100 (three thousand one hundred) votes in Rawalpindi. However, they must persist in their demand for mid-term elections because miracles do happen.

Perhaps they may also take this opportunity to reflect if politics is done only in TV talkshows, or on internet by writing blogs or making facebook fan pages or calling everyone (other than Imran Khan) corrupt 24/7. They may also pause to reflect why Jazi Khan in 2008 secured more than 12000 votes as an independent candidate without Imran Khan’s support, and why Imran Khan’s support in 2010 has reduced Jazi Khan’s vote count by at least 75%. They may also reflect about the fact that people of Rawalpindi, not unlike people in other areas of Pakistan, have rejected Imran Khan because of his persistent and unashamed support for Taliban and Al Qaeda.

In the meanwhile, here is a sneak peek into an on-line forum of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf without any additional comments:

Forums > Insaf Topics > Insaf Lounge
Subject: NA-55 updates – Election day 24 Feb. 2010

Before

23/02/2010 11:04 PM
Polling gets underway,it is a really charged atmosphere and turn out is good so far.
The weather has cleared up very nicely and it is now very fine conditions and voters are coming out in good numbers.
Ijaz khan jazi visits different polling stations and gives interview to geo news at murre road polling station.
Jazi casts his vote at college road polling station and talks to media.shown live on dunya news.

Moazam Ali
PTI
Islamabad

23/02/2010 11:09 PM
1st good news of the day
JUP announces support for PTI candidate in NA-55
syedvhasnain

23/02/2010 11:53 PM
Jazi Khan casted his vote in gordon college at college road and gave sadqa of 11 bakras after that

Moazam Ali
PTI
Islamabad

24/02/2010 12:11 AM
I can confirm atleast 5 votes from Khyban i sir syed and satellite town for jazi khan from whom i know and convinced to vote.they are Haji Amin Khan who used to be my school van driver and his sons other family members and people who he knows,he is an aged person about 60 years old and wanted to vote for PTI in last general election but due to boycott by PTI he voted for PML N.

I can confirm atleast another 5 votes from dhok matkial and dhok hasu area by a couple of young people arond 25 to 30 years old and people they know whom i met in public transport van 24 while coming back from my college in past few days and they commited to vote for PTI and were already very enthusiastic about it.

I can confirm atleast 5 votes from satellite town for PTI by elder brother of my friend in college Hammad and his family members and friends.

I cannot confirm another voter Shaukat Abbasi Chemistry teacher in my College (lahore grammar school) from whom i had taken commitment to vote for PTI instead of Sheikh but i hope that Sadaqat Abbasi Rawalpindi Division President of PTI of whom he is collegue as sadaqat abbasi also teaches Economics in Lahore Grammar School from where I am doing my A Levels would ensure his vote.

Moazam Ali
PTI
Islamabad

24/02/2010 12:54 AM

11:40AM
Turn out at its BEST in Hazara Colony. Mazharabad. And We (PTI) are leading.

Waheed Buttar

24/02/2010 1:26 AM

At present PTI is doing good in Bangash Colony and Khayabaan.

Faisal Mughal

24/02/2010 2:04 AM

Dhoke matkial: PTI strong on women’s side and also gud show so far at mens side.
N league strong at dhoke matkial.

Noman akber.

24/02/2010 4:11 AM
voters have come out in greater nos after 1 and atmosphere is now more charged and activity is at its best,PTI is also very active,Jazi khan is visiting polling stations frequently and is very hopefull.
i agree with the fact that PTI is strong in Khyban and Dhok Matkial,i dont know about bangash colony.I am sure that PTI will win from College road and naya mahala.
it is a very crucial and most important period between now and 5 and it will be the deciding period lets pray for the best.We are in a good position to put up a strong performance.

Moazam Ali
PTI
Islamabad

24/02/2010 4:33 AM
one advise to people on ground in NA 55, if someone can convey to them..after polling is over even then there should be some people present in polling station to help polling agent..because real rigging starts in counting , do not allow any N leaguia or Sheikhoo people to change results during counting

Humein Pehra Dena Ho ga wahan Par and in case you feel any misconduct from League people immeditely inform media and inform all news channels etc. because anything is expected from crooks like Shakeel Awan and Sheeda Talli so you have to take care of all things..only casting vote is not enough , you have to protect it also

Insaf Ki Awaz

After

24/02/2010 5:19 AM
there are reports of riging and riots between workers of PML N and AML at Islamia high school no 4 near liaqat bagh area.polling station no 239.there were reports of riging here in the morning as well by Jamaat Islami.
there is also a prblem coming up that people who come to vote are not registered even some who have voted during last elections.

Moazam Ali
PTI
Islamabad

24/02/2010 6:07 AM
time for voting ends.it is 5 a clock.counting has started.results will start to come after 6 a clock.

Moazam Ali
PTI
Islamabad

24/02/2010 6:14 AM
lets hope for the best
Insaf Talk

24/02/2010 6:31 AM
sheikh and n league both leading 2 , 2 ballotsa out of 4 ballot results islamia road. dunia news.where r we ?
Khan Boy

24/02/2010 6:37 AM
polling station no 214
total votes 735
AML 180
PML N156
PTI 9
JI 6

Moazam Ali

24/02/2010 6:38 AM
polling station 222 shakeel awan 136 and sheikh rasheed 75 votes and ijaz jazi 7 votes and dr kamal 5 votes kuch nai hoo sakta hamara

Khan Boy

24/02/2010 7:06 AM
Geo news survey before poll had PTI only getting 3.75% votes, depressing

Insaf Talk

24/02/2010 6:58 AM
dear all

i have talked with a relative who lives in islamabad but he is well aware of the election situation in NA 55 and he also told me that PTI can be at third place and today competition was between N and Sheikh ..let us pray for atleast good number of votes but till now situation is not looking good

Insaf Ki Awaz

24/02/2010 7:07 AM
but dear i have no problem .if pti is coming 3rd but what can 1 say when we are getiing 3,6,8 votes out for 900
Khan Boy

24/02/2010 7:08 AM
Jazi got more votes as independant candidate last time. This is embarassing
Leader

24/02/2010 7:17 AM
32 Polling stations
PML N 6799
AML 4688
PTI ???

Moazam Ali

24/02/2010 7:20 AM
Whole thing is messed up. Establishment, Money, Lies. I dont understand that we had millions in the Jalsa’s and now only 8, 19, 15 votes?

Their is something wrong in their.
Sialkot Da Raja

24/02/2010 7:27 AM
admins this is stupidness why are u ppl not publishing my posts so sad .sach yehi hy boyz. Publish na karnay say kuch nai honay wala
Khan Boy

24/02/2010 7:27 AM
where exactly are we?… how many votes?……
Gunners 86

24/02/2010 7:28 AM
Guys whatever the results are..m leader is Imran Khan….we hav to realise our mistakes and try to improve every step..the resul was obvious here that PML N gnna win and SR will succeed…but JAZI khan 12,000 votes as iND and now……?i cant believe this …
Its Farhan

24/02/2010 7:29 AM
I cannot believe my eyes…Where did our voters go ?
Andil

24/02/2010 7:41 AM
Well this is depressing no matter what…

i think the biggest problem is lack of the ability in our public to understand who is right and who is wrong,

& such nation got destroyed and Allah replace such nation with a better nation, & see wt is happening…

Its just not sad for PTI but im very sad for our Pakistani public. No sensible man or woman can vote such corrupt parties like PML-N and this guy Sheikh Rashid who has no real idealogy.
I am shocked uptil now to see the ignorance of our public infact Indien public has better understanding than ours, i never thought that such day will come in my life when i have to admit this reality that we as Pakistani are failed to educate our general public to understand the basic difference of right & wrong as compared to indien public .

PTI is the Only right party to vote in Pakistan, i am 101% sure and just because our majority of public is ignorent & fool, that is not going to change my mind ever.

See it like this if today, govt. decide that just those who are F.A pass or atleast matric pass are allowed to vote, All of us will see who is the winner.

The struggle to change a ignorent nation is not easy, There was a time when Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) was stoned by people & he even had to leave his city, but that did not change the fact that he(pbuh) and his followers were not on right path.

Keep Spreading the light of awairness and be sure that we are on right Path

Faakhir 27

24/02/2010 7:47 AM
It’s just unbelievable. Seems like a big conspiracy against PTI. We should better be close to the top 2 candidates. I hope someone from NA-55 can explain this

Coolarsh

24/02/2010 7:53 AM
i thing that there is a lot of rigging because i saw thousands of people in jalsas.its not a matter of win or lose it is a matter of getting more votes.it is shameful for us if jazi got less than 12000 votes because he got them if he is independent.i think that we people deserve this loadshedding corruption because we are uneducated people we do not elect right people.my ambition was to become a politician before 4 hours but now i changed my ambition after seeing the result that there is no place for common and honest people in pakistan politics. Any HOW IMRAN KHAN ZINDABAD PTI ZINDABAD

Rai Bilal 008

24/02/2010 7:54 AM
People don’t want change and deserve zardaris and musharrafs. These people should be taught some lessons by zadaris taking all the money away from Pakistan.

Fareed 1982

24/02/2010 7:57 AM
No doubt our bOyz worked hard But some 1 what about 12000 votes of jazi in last election . where are they I am not asking for anything else but atleast PTI isko ko bhi maintain nai karsaki my estimate is less than 10 k for Jazi and thats pathetic.
NO NEED TO POST ELECTION UPDATES WHEN OUR CADIDATE IS NOT EVEN IN THE JUNGLE.

I DONT KNOW HOW WILL I FACE MY FRIENDZ TODAY AFTER SUCH AN EMBARRASSMENT

Khan Boy

24/02/2010 7:58 AM
ITS A CONSPIRACY AGAINST PTI.ALLAH IS WATCHING AND INSHALLAH THE DAY WILL COME WHEN PTI WINS AND THEY LOST.

Rai Bilal 008

24/02/2010 8:18 AM
Guys I am 100% sure there is soemthing fishy going on. How come there were 8000 people in last jalsa and I am sure their familes would have voted for PTI too so atleast 16000 votes should be there. But it seems people who were on our polling camps even they didn’t vote for us. It doesn’t seem possible. I can’t believe it.
Leader

24/02/2010 8:27 AM
BROZ plz tell me what does this mean zamanat zabt acoording to electioz as mentioned above.

PLZ TELL IN DETAIL Thankz in advance
Khan Boy

24/02/2010 8:30 AM
i cant blv it .. PTI still not win 1 pollin station ??? how iz dat possible .. ???
zeezu

24/02/2010 8:35 AM
@khanboy if the candidate fails to get at least X votes, the money deposited for election to election commission is not refunded and it is considered very embarassing.
I don’t know who many votes are required.
Leader

24/02/2010 8:39 AM
Election is not a solution to our problems. This election is an eye opner. In next general election either PML (N) or PPP or Sheihk Rasid will win, so what difference it makes. We need a BLOODY REVOLUTION. Atlease Talibans are doing a good job by killing these corrupt politicians.
mb1

24/02/2010 8:42 AM
@Leader. hahaha leader nice sense of humor

Guys we also need to prepare ourselvs for the criticism now we are going to face from the big mouth people like Aabdi of PPP, who clam that awam has rejected the ” Pro Taliban ” forces like PTI & JI.

Well thank you People of Pindi you are all ********

But Guys we need to remember that EC is under the punjab govt. and no matter wt results are unrealistic. there is something wrong….. im 101% sure.

Because this is not just a seat, this has damaged the name of PTI in Pakistan and how nicely PML-N has played, they won and destroyed the image of PTI in Pk, i heard Jazi Khan he said that from an area where he is sure that his family has more than 200 votes the result was 3 votes for PTI.

Just for a secod, without thinking that i am just shouting after loosing, how can an area with 65% literacy rate and we saw in Jalsas and in other media interviews that PTI has a vote bank there, the current nr of votes dont look relistic…

there is something wrong and actually very wrong….
Faakhir 27

24/02/2010 8:52 AM
i think we need a revolution.

Moazam Ali
PTI
Islamabad

24/02/2010 9:14 AM

I refuse to accept this result. There is someting is seriouly wrong in the whole electioneering process. How are the votes being counted? The numbers just do not add up. When India can have electonic voting machines why can’t we? This manual voting system belongs in the last century. Did people mistakenly give vote to “sher” thinking it was IK? As IK is often compared to a lion. We can expect this from some of these retards.
Andil

24/02/2010 9:37 AM
latest Update ON DUNIA NEWS IS JI GOT 4000 votes and pti got even lesser .WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPNING GUYZZZZZZ
Khan Boy

24/02/2010 9:37 AM
We are not even third guys. JI third.
Abytude

24/02/2010 9:38 AM
We should go to court. Afterall courts are free as IK says.
Leader

24/02/2010 9:55 AM
Now that we know the results, go and back and watch the Ababeel house jalsa video. Yaar itna hazar banda hamain ch*tia bana raha tha? ek bhi vote nai dalnay aya ?!

Nahhh … i am waiting for IK’s statement. This isnt ending here.
Abytude

24/02/2010 10:54 AM
Very Sad news. We couldn’t even get Third position. JI supasses us and gets third slot
Ajmal Abbasi

24/02/2010 1:04 PM
It’s really heart breaking after so much hardwork and preperation, we still couldn’t get good number of votes. I’m shocked and really worried about future of Pakistan now. I don’t know what to say…. completely speechless. Can’t even face my cousins now who are pakay muslim leagee.
Kabir Chaudhry

Source: http://insaf.pk/Forum/tabid/53/forumid/1/tpage/1/view/Topic/postid/79792/Default.aspx

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 People’s Party has asked its voters to vote for Rashid and ensure his victory. Wherever he goes, Rashid misses no opportunity to praise Benazir’s contributions to democracy. He calls her a martyr and a great leader of Pakistan. He actually does not call her by her name any more, but by “Mohtarma”.

Why is the People’s Party helping Sheikh Rashid? One answer is that it is the ISI which wants a Rottweiler in the parliament who could bite anyone suspected even of scowling at the very name “Army”. The budget session is nearby and the Army has asked for more money which it will not allow anyone to audit it or talk about. Rashid’s presence will make a good addition to bully in case one or two MNAs should they hazard a comment on the money for the Army. This however is not an issue. In Pakistan, no one can challenge the Army.

What I was personally reminded of was the year 1988 when Nawaz Sharif, backed by the ISI and General Aslam Beg, declared Benazir, then the country’s prime minister, a “security risk” for Pakistan. It was on one evening in Mochi Gate in Lahore where Nawaz Sharif’s Muslim League held a rally against Benazir. Every speaker including Nawaz Sharif demonized Benazir for being a foreign agent (India) and called for her removal as prime minister. But it was Sheikh Rashid who stole the show. When he spoke everyone fell silent. Nawaz Sharif had a mischievous and conspiratorial smile on his chubby face reinforced by his shining bald head and rotund belly.

The moment Sheikh Rashid took to the rostrum the atmosphere was electrified with anticipation of a welcome volley of filth for which he has been notorious since he was handpicked by General Zia ul Haq to be a part of his team in the 1980s.

Those who did not attend the speech will only marginally understand what I am going to write because it was Rashid’s body language and the use of hands and fingers which filled in all the innuendos and gutter talk in which he launched himself. He began, “These days her [Benazir’s] situation is going up and coming down [O de halat uttay thally ho rai ne.].” He used his right thumb up and down suggestively which meant something so lewd that I cannot write it here. Then he made fun of her for losing her temper and said: “O barai chaiti garam ho jandi aye! [She heats up very fast].” With that he moved his four fingers and thumb like he was closing and opening them. This meant barking of a bitch. He called Benazir a bitch. He was hilariously applauded by the audience and the Mysllim League leadwrs including Nawaz Sharif.

There is much more he said about Benazir, but I cannot bring myself to write because it pains me to write about the woman who is not alive anymore. But the man who actually said that has never repented.

The People’s Party should be ashamed for having supported this man who has no shame and no sense of honor. What is the difference between Sheikh Rashid and the leadership of the People’s Party?

By Omar Khattab in Rawalpindi

There is a lot of confusion in Rawalpindi and elsewhere in Pakistan about who would have wanted to kill Shiekh Rashid.

This is what happened: Yesterday as he was coming out of his election office, two gunmen allegedly shot at him while two more gunmen were covering the shooters. As a result four persons walking along Sheikh Rashid were killed. He was injured and was taken to a hospital where it was discovered that his “injury” was not a result of a bullet, but of a fall. Technically he was not injured but had a bruised thigh.

Now a few points to ponder: Who wants to kill Shiekh Rashid? But before we answer this question, we must ask another question: Who kills civilians in Pakistan?

The answer is: the jihadis. In other words, the killers are the Taliban who belong to different sectarian-terrorist organizations but have the same ideology of Islamo-fascism. Shiekh Rashid has been one of the guardian angels of the jihadis as he, by his own confession, has run jihadi camps in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.

Another point to note is that the jihadis in Pakistan are handled, trained, and protected by the Inter-Services Intelligence (the ISI), which regularly kidnaps and kills mostly non-Punjabi liberals, progressives, and nationalists. Shiekh Rashid, a Punjabi, has been a civilian-political asset of the ISI. He is known to be an Islamist who openly supports Islamo-fascsim and terrorist activities in India. He is so subservient to the Army that he has been proudly claiming the superiority of the Army over all other institutions in Pakistan.

Thus, why would the jihadis or their godfathers, the generals, want Shiekh Rashid to be killed?

If you try to read between the lines, you will find some clever stuff built into the so-called attack on Shiekh Rashid. How come two gunmen shoot straight at the man and miss him completely, but kill four persons beside him? We must remember that no one was in front of Shiekh Rashid, and yet no bullet even brushed past him! Four violent deaths and one man, the supposed target, with a bruise! Can common sense accept this?

This is what lies beneath the headlines and journalistic reporting: It was a well-planned attack to infuse life into the moribund career of a pro-Taliban politician who was defeated at the polls. The ISI wants its man to return to parliament and no can serve it with more servility than the ever-faithful and time-tested Shiekh Rashid. Now he will ride on the sympathy vote and the ruling People’s Party will be arm-twisted (by the ISI) to ask its voters to vote for him. A victory of this constant supporter of martial law (first General Zia and then General Musharraf) will be yet another piece of evidence that even if you are dead, the gods of the ISI can bring you to life.

Gallows of the old Rawalpindi Central Jail continue to haunt the Military Headquarters, where Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged in the early hours of April 4th 1979. After more than thirty years of Bhutto’s judicial murder, the military regimes it seems have struggled in vain to erase the scars of slaughter. Thirty Years to the fateful morning, it seems, the Garrison City of Rawalpindi hasn’t escaped the spell.

Benazir Bhutto, in her government days, built a memorial for the late Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Today, the memorial at Rawalpindi Central Jail fancies a Cinema, several foreign franchises and a grand shopping mall. Jinnah Park as it is now known was deliberately carved by the Military regime of General Musharraf. It not only seriously violates the sanctity of the monument built in remembrance of Quaid-e Awam, but abuses the reverence and love of the workers of the Pakistan People’s Party.

There is no harm in developing recreational facilities for the general public, but not at this expense. I have been studying in Rawalpindi for the past three years now and not a single day has passed by when it stings not like a thorn.

The People’s Democratic Government has been in place since April 2008, but nothing has been done so far in this regard. As a worker of Pakistan People’s Party and a responsible citizen of Pakistan, I request the People’s Government to address this issue as soon as possible. Perhaps a University and a Library could be built in Memorial of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.