Free and fair election , without any delay
This is the only way to save Pakistan
Some powers who never wanted to see democracy in Pakistan are trying hard to postpone our elections .
Different tactics are being used . Biggest attempt in last days was Canadian drone Tahir’s Dharna which ended in a shameful way but he is still on his way . We see more efforts by others but worst of that is to pressurize our honest and graceful chief election commissioner . He is a man who never afford any disgrace so our cheap politicians and agents of dirty powers are trying to pressurize him which could end to his resignation . Our country can not afford any more foolishness . We all should support democracy and support the right of the people with out any hesitation .
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Yes then why is Zardari delaying the date of the Elections.......Why not bring the care taker govt and do elections in April its cz abhe uska pait nhe bhara .....Abhe aur lutna hai 2 4 months phr elections honge
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Free and fair election is an illusion in Pakistan. The main political parties are sore losers, they are carrying out pre poll rigging and the institution which should be keeping an eye on these instances is quiet. The polls would be similar to those we have been seeing through out our history, the trailer we have already seen in the by elections.
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It is clear that 'Nirrala ' party is admitting their defeat .
I also feel that the party I support will loose
But it is the beauty of democracy .
Let's think and work for our people
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It is clear that 'Nirrala ' party is admitting their defeat . I also feel that the party I support will loose But it is the beauty of democracy . Let's think and work for our people
After reading this the only one admitting defeat here is you uncle no offence though :@:
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It is clear that 'Nirrala ' party is admitting their defeat . I also feel that the party I support will loose But it is the beauty of democracy . Let's think and work for our people
Do you see any visible difference between this election commission and the ones before it?
Let the government do rigging, inshaAllah dama dam mast qalandar would be after the elections.
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It is clear that 'Nirrala ' party is admitting their defeat . I also feel that the party I support will loose But it is the beauty of democracy . Let's think and work for our people
most probably PPP will lose this elections and sit in opposition. Only fair and impartial elections are the solution to all the problems in Pakistan. **Really I don't care if as a result of fair and impartial elections whether N$ or IK or whatever wins. **Papa Paadri and CJ are playing very dirty game, most probably on the instructions of people who have absolute power.
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According to former Secretary Election Commission Kanwar Dilshad the Election Commission is rigged by PPP, therefore the SC should have gone into the merits of TuQ’s case. The Election Commission member from Sindh belongs to PPP, the one from KP is an ANP nominee, Balochistan is also an ally. After the 20th amendment all members (four from provinces and the chief election commission) have equal weight-age while choosing caretaker governments. The government is suitably placed having 3 votes out of 5. It seems as if PMLN (and the whole country) have become mamu (at the hands of PPP) once again.
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There will be no PPP government next month
All 40 million fake votes were under secretory ship of this Dilshad .
Than everything was ok .
Bakta hay .
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.... I also feel that the party I support will loose........
That's why PPP tried hard to go 'shaheed' several times and save themselves. The military should be praised since they restrained themselves a lot looking at the besharam ridicule of law and order during the last few years. The delay is from the government. The date of elections should have been announced weeks ago but they prefer someone to send them out forcefully so they can go weeping to the people they leech, again.
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This is not for sure , They are not going for any ‘Shahadat’ Zardari is not a ‘Bhutto’ . He is doing politics in opponents way . He is managing to get sufficient numbers to be elected again himself or any other ‘Jialla’ as president . It is right of every party to try for possible good .
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Free elections under the auspices of PPP is more of a joke than anything else. Yes, rigging will be much less pronounced, because of massive media coverage, but we have to remember that 'chor chori sey jaye, hera pheri sey na jaye.'
The biggest joke on the country is that the current assemblies have about 2 weeks to go, and there is no caretaker setup in sight. This setup should have been decided and finalized ages ago, yet we are still talking about suggestions for a name. PPP knows it has virtually no chance in the next elections, and it has fully planned to leave the country is as big a mess and anarchy as possible.
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free and fair elections.. without any delay.
I wish PPP and PML-N honestly believed that. Nothing was stopping them from announcing an election date but nahi bhayee.. pehle apna future secure kernay ki poori koshish ho jaye.. saaray alliances bun jayen, saari setting ho jaye phir announce ker deyn ge.
all in the name of democracy.
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Battle of the porridges…and the hope for miracles - Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary
The coming elections are not about the next government. If it were just that, it wouldn’t matter. One great humbug or the other, we could live with the consequences. But the contest now upon us is about something more: the country’s future, the path that this luckless republic is likely to take.
Or, to put it more starkly, is this republic for saving or is it a gone venture? The answer to this question will come from the choices that the electorate makes in 2-3 months. The 1970 elections led to the breakup of Pakistan. The 2013 elections can mean the saving of Pakistan or, dread thought, the further undoing of Pakistan.
This is the challenge, the challenge thrown up by our unquenchable desire to commit national suicide. But look at the wet response: the same bilateral dictatorship of mediocrity that has been around for the last 30 years if not more. The challenge is momentous and new. The remedies on offer are tried and old, yesterday’s saviours setting themselves up as today’s redeemers. This is what makes the plot of the coming elections so dark and dismal.
Pakistan could have done with some new orchestral score to shake the serenity of the timeless mountains. All it has are the same echoes repeating themselves endlessly.
In their own way Sheikh Mujib and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto captured the spirit of their times in 1970. In some of the most ringing oratory to resound across this land, they articulated the discontent of their respective nations. East Pakistan wanted freedom from the highhandedness of the West Pakistani elite. The West Pakistani masses, not the elites, yearned for some sort of social redemption. That neither of the two leaders could correctly read the alignment of the stars is beside the point. Of their time and its troubles they were the true spokesmen.
Where are the spokesmen of today, the heralds of the new, prophets of change that this troubled land – haunted by nightmares and the fear of the unknown – so badly needs? Luminaries bearded and unbearded, bloodshot eyes fixed on the honey pot of power, putting together alliances likely and unlikely…that’s all we are getting when we could do with some poetry and the music of Wagner. No, given the hugeness of our discontents, nothing less than Wagner would do. If not chariots out of the Rhine, why not chariots out of the Indus to set it on fire?
Are our mountain peaks less imposing than the Bavarian Alps? Is the Indus of lesser majesty than the Rhine or the Danube? Why then should the poetry and music of our anguish be less heart-moving (heart-stopping) than the music of Wagner? Let some of those battle-sounds come to our assistance. Maybe they help quicken the national pulse, and in this dull arena we could do with some of that.
To repeat, a feast for the gods is what we need and what we are getting from both sides of the aisle is stale porridge, whose taste has been with us for as long as our dull palates can remember.
We can suspend disbelief and hope for the best – the last refuge of the mentally-challenged – but do we really think that out of this stale porridge we can get something to lessen the sum of our national distress? There’s no harm in being optimistic. There’s no law against perpetual stupidity. But there comes a time when one must pause and ponder.
How did Einstein define insanity? “…doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” With the bilateral dictatorship of mediocrity we have been performing the same experiment for the last 30 years and, defying common sense, we continue to live in hope. We are about to perform the same experiment in the coming elections and yet are hoping for different results. For such naïveté even the great Hakim Luqman would have no cure.
There’s only one hope and a faint one at that. **In the run-up to the 1970 elections few certified pundits foresaw Bhutto’s victory in West Pakistan. Punjab, where Bhutto scored his biggest win, was expected to fall to the Council Muslim League headed by Mian Mumtaz Daultana. Gen Yahya Khan’s intelligence apparatus was betting on a hung National Assembly. His intelligence chiefs funneled money to the Muslim League-Qayyum and, predictably, the Jamaat-e-Islami. (Barring Ayub why have all our strongmen loved the Jamaat?)
But the outcome shattered those fond hopes. When the results started being announced on television on the evening and night of December 7, 1970, it seemed as if the earth was shaking, precisely because the outcome was so unexpected. Bhutto had made an impact, very true, but that in Punjab and interior Sindh he would sweep everything before him was not what most of the punditocracy was expecting.
Might something of the same sort happen this time as well? Is something cooking under the surface?** Other things are secondary. This is the most vital question about these elections: not the expected happening in the form of one or the other dish of stale porridge winning the culinary prize, but of the unexpected, the least foreseen, coming to pass.
Is there anything to support this conclusion? Not much except a very slender circumstance: to all appearances the two established parties look to be the likely winners but isn’t it strange that they are producing so little enthusiasm? Even their committed fellow-travellers are going through the motions, performing their various duties but showing themselves so singularly devoid of genuine emotion, much less any kind of passion. An election set to define Pakistan’s future, which will tell us whether there is any point in hoping or we should give up on hope altogether, and drawing so little excitement.
There should be storm and thunder on the stage, the sharp clash of ideas, oratory to touch the lustre of the stars and what we are getting is this battle of the porridges. Pakistan is in peril, the economy askew and the forces of extremism on the march, these forces hostile to the very idea of Pakistan. The Pakistani amphitheatre being made ready for something dramatic, either cataclysmic or life-saving, and all that we have by way of a cast is, Allah be praised, this array of shining paladins.
The bell is about to toll for this National Assembly and, for all the good it has done, not a moment too soon. Then we enter the twilight zone of interim government and the elections. Who can tell what destiny has in store for us? Maybe more of the same but maybe our luck turns and the heavens shed a kindlier light on us. But a kindlier light while the same humbug plutocrats are around, shedding tears, oh such tears, for the plight of that figure of speech called the common man? Those who work the lights of heaven would have to be more gullible than we think.
**The status quo is what has brought us to where we are. Some movement then, a whack on the backside of the status quo…this is the chance coming with these elections. Will they deliver such a whack? For the sake of Pakistan and its future something of the sort better happen or we are undone. Five more years of the same porridge ladled out by the same clammy hands…we would have to be pretty down on our luck for this to happen.
For this would mean that the gods truly have abandoned us, leaving us to our devices, and the delights of the high table at which we have been supping for the last 30 years, the cooks not changing, the menu not changing, all in the name of the greater glory of this republic we never tire of proclaiming as God’s supreme gift to mankind.**