God Forbid they should be absent from contesting the polls. Use the public power. PPP has served the public, and spared no effort to reach out to the common man in the last 5 years. President Zardari has spent almost all his time involved with the public personally along with his closest aides. It is time that the public would come to shield their ex-PMA/MNA belonging to these parties.
Like I said before, TTP cannot go door to door to stop people from voting. PPP and its' coalition partners can go door to door to ask for their rightful votes based on performance.
How many innocent people you want to be killed by these monsters? Why you have suddenly become a spoke person of TTP?
The slogan wasn't "Har Ghar sey TTP niklay ga!" it was "Har Ghar say Bhutto niklay ga!". Or has that changed now to the point that PPP is afraid to even do door to door campaigning? Surely the public won't disown PPP/ANP/MQM overnight on the account of terrorism. Public is very faithful, and will vote for those that served it.
KARACHI: Three people were killed and around 40 others, including children, were injured in yet another Taliban militant attack on Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Karachi’s Azizabad neighbourhood on Saturday night, DawnNews reported.
An election office of the party was the target of the two separate blasts. The office was situated near the MQM headquarters Nine-Zero in Azizabad.
The explosions were heard from far distances and spread fear among the local residents. Nearby buildings and vehicle were damaged while power outage was also reported in the area after the incident.
Injured were shifted to different hospitals including Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in the violence-ridden metropolis, which is the financial hub of the country. A camera man and a driver of DawnNews crew along with three Rangers soldiers were among the injured.
Security agencies cordoned off the area but not before the second explosion targeted rescue activities after the first bomb blast, said eye witnesses.
The bomb disposal squad had also been called in the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital amid reports of yet another planted bomb there. However, no explosive devices were found from the hospital vicinity.
Speaking to a private TV channel, MQM leader Wasay Jalil said the explosions occurred near the party’s sector office in Azizabad locality. He said several party activists are among the injured.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility of the attack. Speaking to Dawn.com via telephone from an undisclosed location, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said the target was MQM and both bombings were carried out through planted devices.
The MQM, however, has vowed to not bow down to the terrorists. Speaking to DawnNews, the party’s leader, Haider Abbas Rizvi said that MQM has been targeted by forces which do not wish to see it coming into power. “We will continue with our election campaign and no one can deter us from our fundamental right of partaking in polls,” he said.
**More than 70 people have been killed and around 350 injured in the ongoing militant attacks on electioneering of certain political parties across the country since April 11.
The outlawed TTP has vowed to target the secular political parties of the country, naming Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Awami National Party (ANP) and MQM in the run up to the coming general elections.**
The historic May 11 polls will witness the first ever democratic transition of power in Pakistan.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has announced to observe a day of mourning across the Sindh province on Sunday. Transporters and business owners are urged to keep their offices closed throughout the day tomorrow, said a statement from the party’s Rabita (coordination) Committee.
How many innocent people you want to be killed by these monsters? Why you have suddenly become a spoke person of TTP?
I'm going based off of what I've heard on TV from noble personalities of PPP/ANP/MQM in the last 5 years in regards to terrorism. I'm speaking as a public member. I'm not a spokesperson of anyone.
Rather why have you suddenly become so pessimistic about outcome of elections if PPP's performance has been stellar, then no worries. It will win.
I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. Something about PPP performance? Ethnic mud-slinging will not be tolerated. Try again.
Right from post 1 to this post I am not discussing performance of PPP here? If its performance is so bad why TTP has started to target PPP so that it should not participate. Let the people decide their fate, not TTP supported by IK and N$, $$ making these elections a joke to the whole world.
Lets simplify things. We're all mature adults here. Lets just answer precisely.
A. Has terrorism been curbed in the last 5 years, as claimed time and again by the Government representatives?
B. If the representatives of public cannot guarantee safety for themselves, how will they offer safety and security to the public that is much greater in numbers?
C. Do you feel that PPP/ANP/MQM deserve to be voted again because they were successful in eliminating terrorism? Or were the claims by Governments representatives lies?
See if you can stay on-topic and answer these. Don't worry about what language the voters speak. PPP/MQM/ANP being the major contenders as you said have following in all 4 provinces.
MQM is indeed holding their routinely typical jalsa, none of their political leaders are harmed whereas ANP has just lost one of their candidates.
I don't see why the jiyalsa are moaning and whinging about Karachi situation (ha! the irony), if anything they should be desperately praying for another political shahadat - the ultimate lifeline of their party and basis for all their policies, no sorry, slogans.
Right from post 1 to this post I am not discussing performance of PPP here?
You are only spreading racism and not discussing performance of PPP.
From post one onwards it is all about how Punjabis are responsible for the things happening in Sindh (where all the establishment and administration is under PPP, MQM control, and where all these parties are entertaining militant wings with state-of-the-art weapons).
Right from post 1 to this post I am not discussing performance of PPP here? If its performance is so bad why TTP has started to target PPP so that it should not participate. Let the people decide their fate, not TTP supported by IK and N$, $$ making these elections a joke to the whole world.
What now? PPP is only a Karachi party now that inability to campaign in one city means it cannot contest for other constituencies?
What happened the mantra of Bhutto's party being the party of Pakistan etc etc...
Lets simplify things. We're all mature adults here. Lets just answer precisely.
A. Has terrorism been curbed in the last 5 years, as claimed time and again by the Government representatives?
B. If the representatives of public cannot guarantee safety for themselves, how will they offer safety and security to the public that is much greater in numbers?
C. Do you feel that PPP/ANP/MQM deserve to be voted again because they were successful in eliminating terrorism? Or were the claims by Governments representatives lies?
See if you can stay on-topic and answer these. Don't worry about what language the voters speak. PPP/MQM/ANP being the major contenders as you said have following in all 4 provinces.
A. no it was not but controlled to a great extent as compared to Mush's era
B. Same applies to IK, N$ and $$
C. Again I am not discussing that. Many times in other thread I have said in fair elections perhaps PML(N) would form the future government. Why TTP is involved to suppress these parties to participate in these elections? Don't you feel that they are sabotaging the whole election process? Are IK and N$, $$ are so dumb, stupid retards they can not envision this sabotage?
A. no it was not but controlled to a great extent as compared to Mush's era
Absolutely wrong.
The fact is that at national level terrorism was at peak during 2009 (Zardari Era)
And the fact is that terrorism in Khi is at historical peak during Zardari + MQM era.
A. no it was not but controlled to a great extent as compared to Mush's era
B. Same applies to IK, N$ and $$
C. Again I am not discussing that. Many times in other thread I have said in fair elections perhaps PML(N) would form the future government. Why TTP is involved to suppress these parties to participate in these elections? Don't you feel that they are sabotaging the whole election process? Are IK and N$, $$ are so dumb, stupid retards they can not envision this sabotage?
A. How has it been controlled? The suicide attacks happen everyday all across the country.
B. Okay.
C. You're still not able to answer why the wave of terrorism overnight now. Hasn't the terrorism been controlled to a great extent as compared to Mush's era? Common sense dictates, reduced terrorism=more public activity.