arshad5
August 26, 2014, 10:06pm
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Re: Hamid Mir predicted Azadi and Inqilabi marches in 2013.
Yea, I saw the interview, but I do not know if you understood what Musharraf was saying.
What Musharraf was saying is that Musharraf was looking for PMLQ electoral alliance with other parties … itself shows that Musharraf 2002 election was not rigged, else Musharraf would not have cared for electoral alliances, neither his party would have been minority party and thus needed help of other parties (plus forward blocks in PPP) to form government.
In electoral alliance, parties withdraw their candidates in favour of their electoral alliance parties. So, what happens is that, parties get seats to contest election on basis of their standing, strength and possibility of how many seats they can win without alliance.
Musharraf political agents (at that time, ISI was under him) told Musharraf that PTI has supports in around 5 constituencies. So, Musharraf offered PTI 10 seats to contest election unopposed by alliance parties (something that was good concession). But PTI start demanding 100 seats. That means, to accept PTI demand, other parties who had much bigger support than PTI should be given none or much fewer seats, so Musharraf did not agreed, and thus alliance broke down.
That is all.
Imran Khan wanted 90-100 seats, the establishment was mean’t to accommodate him somehow in their pie. They chose not to accommodate him, because that would have mean’t less seats for other coalition partners.
Just remind me how many seats did he actually win in 2002? When he stated that the country was behind him and he deserved 90-100 seats.