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this is for you reza/malik, aap key chaudhry sahib ki party mey bhi yehi ho raha hai lol
Party men continue to leave the PML[Q]
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default…12-2007_pg7_11
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Yeh, Zardari will provide the killer punch - in the PPP’s guts that is.
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Sindh tribal leader quits PPP re-joins PML Q
Sardar Chakar Khan Shahani has quit the PPP and rejoined the PML-Q along with his friends and tribesmen. Sardar Chakar, brother-in-law of former federal minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi, had joined the PPP a few days ago. On Sunday, at a press conference at the residence of Liaquat Jatoi in Dadu, he rejoined the PML-Q. Ali Mohammad Soomro, Saeed Ahmed Soomro, Syed Fida Hussain Shah, Ashique Hussain Zour and Syed Mithal Shah were present there.
Chakar Khan Shahani has started campaigning for Liaquat Jatoi. Meanwhile, Mr Jatoi held several public meeting at Chhinni, Shah Hassan Allahabad and Phulji station. A PPP activist of Phulji town, Ali Anwar, has announced to join PML-Q.
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Some PPP leaders going tp PML Q, and others to PML N.
Two PPP leaders embrace PML(N)
Two disappointed PPP leaders, Mian Rafiq and Saifullah Cheema, have finally joined the PML-N ranks. Rumours of the duo’s joining the PML-N in Nawaz Sharif’s public meeting in Faisalabad on Monday were rife, however a formal announcement to this effect came on Wednesday. Rafiq, a former MPA, had returned PPP ticket for PP-90 (Khikha) to protest the allegedly ‘conspiring’ attitude of former federal minister Khalid Kharal a few days ago. He has now been awarded PML-N ticket. While talking to reporters here on Wednesday, PML-N district president Amjad Ali Javed confirmed that Rafiq had joined PML-N in a meeting with Nawaz Sharif in Faisalabad on Monday.
In the last general elections, PML-Q candidate Chaudhry Liaqat Ali Shoukat defeated Rafiq with a narrow margin and Rafiq had blamed Khalid Kharal for ‘secretly supporting his rival’. Meanwhile, Chaudhry Saifullah Cheema, a former PPP leader who was earlier given ticket for NA-92, on Wednesday announced his quitting the PPP and joining the PML-N. Talking to reporters in Gojra, Cheema announced that he would support PML-N candidate for NA-92 M Hamza. Hamza was also present there to welcome Cheema in PML-N ranks. The PPP had decided to field Cheema for NA-92 in its London meeting but subsequently ticket was withdrawn from him and was given to Chaudhry Khalid Bashir, who is a known transporter of the area. This had annoyed Cheema and he was thinking of quitting the party. After making up his mind, he went to Faisalabad to attend Nawaz Sharif’s public meeting on Monday, which paved the way of his joining the PML-N.
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Some PPP leaders going tp PML Q, and others to PML N.
Who will BB join? :D
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/09/nat7.htm
Not all PPP nominations welcomed with cheers: Reserved seats for women
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Lota league now faces trouble in punjab! LOL
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=11786
By Tariq Butt
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) is in disarray in more than three Punjab districts, which is the main focus of its attention in the Jan 8 parliamentary elections to return to the power corridors.
The distribution of tickets and internal fighting has especially hit the districts of Attock, Chakwal and Bhakkar. All the PML-Q tickets for the three National Assembly seats of the Attock district are in a family.
Former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, his niece Eman Waseem, daughter of Maj (retd) Tahir Sadiq, the Attock district Nazim, and her husband, Waseem Gulzar, are the PML-Q nominees in the Attock district. Waseem actually hails from Mandi Bahauddin.
This is the unique district where a husband and wife are contesting on two National Assembly seats. Malik Allahyar Khan, 85, opted out for health reasons and old age from NA-58, and is satisfied with the award of the PML-Q ticket to his son, Malik Aitbar, for a Punjab Assembly seat. Pervaiz Elahi is the party candidate from this constituency.
PML-Q nominee Waseem Gulzar is contesting from NA-59, which his wife had vacated for Shaukat Aziz’s election in 2004.
Eman Gulzar is PML candidate from NA-57 which was earlier won by Malik Amin Aslam. He has rebelled against the party and is contesting as an independent. Aslam had won the NA-57 in October 2002 elections by securing 39,921 votes and defeated Hafiz Saeed of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and Salman Sarwar, who had got 23,933 and 23,988 votes, respectively.
Previously, Malik Allahyar Khan was elected from NA-58 by bagging 88,784 votes with Malik Sohal Khan of PML-N and Iftikhar Ali Khan of PPP trailing with 41,373 and 10,302 votes respectively.
Eman Waseem had won NA-59 by getting 65,672 votes while Dr Sikandar of the PPP and Lt-Col (retd) Pervez Khan had bagged 41,674 and 12,884 votes respectively. In Chakwal district, the picture is also not encouraging for the PML-Q. Two prominent candidates, Mansoor Hayat Tamman and Faiz Tamman, who had secured a large number of votes, were ignored by the PML-Q as Pervaiz Elahi decided to contest for NA-61. Faiz had bagged 101,664 votes while Mansoor 76,171 votes in 2002. The former is now PML-N’s nominee while Mansoor PPP’s.
PML-Q candidate Maj (Retd) Tahir Iqbal, former federal minister, for the NA-60 Chakwal withdrew in favour of PML-N contestant Ayaz Amir because of party infighting in the district. Last time, Tahir had got 72,331 votes while Ayaz 70,080 votes.
The two PML-Q candidates for an equal number of National Assembly constituencies of Bhakkar have now returned the party tickets and have opted to be independents. Abdul Majeed Khan was now the PML-Q nominee for NA-73 while Rashid Akbar Nawani for NA-74.
In 2002, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain was elected to the National Assembly from NA-74 by securing 103,508 votes. He had defeated PML-N’s Dr Afzal Dhandla. PML-Q’s Sanaullah Khan was elected from NA-73 by bagging 95,131 votes. He had defeated PML-N’s Abdul Majeed Khan.
In addition, the PML-Q has, in the words of one of its senior leaders, fielded very weak and unknown candidates for at least eleven constituencies of Lahore.
“Before allocation of PML-Q tickets for Lahore seats, I, while sitting in Lahore’s party office, asked Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to call the candidates. I was surprised when he told me that those standing inside our room in a row were the ones who had been allotted party sponsorships,” a senior PML-Q leader told The News.
This stalwart was born and brought up in Lahore and knows who is who of the town. “I couldn’t recognize even one of them,” he said. Former commerce minister Hamayun Akhtar was going to badly lose from one Lahore constituency for obvious reasons—Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan was vying for the same NA-124 seat as the PML-N had also committed its support to him.
After Aitzaz’s withdrawal, Hamayun, with his vigorous campaign backed by massive funding, now feels comfortable to win. Abdul Haleem Khan, former Punjab minister, is another PML-Q candidate for a Lahore seat. He is being considered formidable, but has been described as controversial because of his involvement in different land deals.
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Who will BB join? :D
Like her other party people who are leaving in droves now, she will probably join the PML, with a choice between the Q or the N. :)
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Like her other party people who are leaving in droves now, she will probably join the PML, with a choice between the Q or the N. :)
Baichari PPP.
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Just what I was saying yesterday. 
Rifts within PPP leave Taxila open to ‘Q’ and ‘N’
By Our Correspondent
TAXILA, Dec 17: Unlike Islamabad where there are no signs of an election campaign even though only three weeks remain for the contest, the peripheral towns of Taxila and Wah are heating up for the polling day as seven sturdy combatants face each other for the coveted seat of NA-53, of them three represent arch rivals of the old guard — former Federal Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan, PML-N stalwart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and independent candidate, Faisal Iqbal. The constituency of NA-53 comprises Taxila and Wah Cantt on the one side and miles away Chakri and Sahil with a total of 3,43,160 voters including 1,67,574 of Taxila-Chakri and 1,75,586 in rural and urban areas of Wah Cantonment. It is a varied mix of population that makes it difficult for candidates to push their weight around.
The ‘Q’ League candidate Ghulam Sarwar Khan is the defending champion having this seat in the last elections.
He has been campaigning since smell the polls and enjoys the support of eight of 10 union councils’ nazims besides the tehsil nazim. He is claiming credit for five mega projects. PML-N candidate Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan who was runner up in the previous general elections, has launched his election campaign late in the day and seems to be banking on his party’s deep roots in the masses. The party was in a state of despondency prior to the arrival of Nawaz Sharif and also due to the heavy crack down on workers since his forced deportation to Saudi Arabia. But this pall of gloom has lifted since the arrival of the Sharif brothers. Facing them is independent candidate, Faisal Iqbal, a businessman-turned-politician, who is also called “Edhi of Wah Cantonment” to whose credit are several development projects in Taxila and Wah Cantonment. He has a strong vote bank in the area. It is the first time in the political history of Taxila that an independent candidate would be giving tough time to the old guards and seasoned politicians of the area and cause an upset if he wins or his dividing vote turns the tables on one of the traditional rivals. Taxila, once known as “Mini Larkana” with a strong vote bank for PPP, but differences among its local leadership over grant of party tickets has made the election prospects of the party shaky. An important factor that may play a deciding role in the final outcome is the Biradari system. The Khattar, Kashmiri and Gujjar biradaris (clans) are in a majority in this constituency and all of the biradaris have fielded their own candidates in this constituency for the January 08 polls.
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Oh dear, what a shame, never mind. So much for PPP gaining more seats. 
One has to love Pakistani politics.
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Here is some “seat adjustment” between the PPP and PML N going on. :rotfl:
Candidate Quits PPP, joins PML-N
By Our Correspondent
JHANG, Dec 14: Dr Abu-ul-Hasan Ansari, a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate in NA-89 (Jhang city), on Friday quit his party and joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). As a result, he was awarded PML-N ticket for NA-89 and PP-77. Ansari, who joined PPP just a month ago, is a close aide of Begum Abida Hussain and he was awarded PPP ticket on her recommendation. Defending his decision to change the party, Ansari said he left PPP because he could not defend Benazir Bhutto’s stance on deposed judges. He said people of his constituency forced him to quit PPP. He praised Nawaz Sharif for his stance on judiciary.
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More trouble for the unpopular lota shujaat league PML[qora group] :hehe: They better practice their rigging skills fast
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default…-12-2007_pg1_1
PML-N forms body for seat adjustment with PPP
** Shahbaz says PML-Q a dead party
- Nawaz says PML-N contesting polls ‘under protest’*
LAHORE/CHICHAWATNI /SAHIWAL: Ruling out any alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), PML-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shahbaz Sharif on Monday said that a committee has been set up for seat-to-seat adjustments with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
Talking to reporters in Lahore, the PML-N president said that the committee would review the situation, and that the PML-N would support PPP candidates where they had a shot at winning, and vice-versa.
He said the PML-Q was a “dead party” and it had caused immense losses to the country, so there was no chance of a political alliance with it. He said that the PML-N had decided to participate in the upcoming general elections to save the country, not merely to come into power.
Meanwhile, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said that he would not compromise with the abrogators of the constitution, adding that the PML-N would remove them from power by contesting the upcoming elections.
Addressing public meetings at Chichawatni, Kasowal and Iqbal Nagar on Sunday, he said the doctrine of necessity had weakened the country. Had a stand been taken in 1960, the situation would be much different today, he added. He said the courts should have announced decisions according to law and the constitution rather than the doctrine of necessity to ensure that no dictator would dare dissolve the assemblies and abrogate the constitution. He regretted that the father of the nuclear programme, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, had been detained and tortured, reported Online.
The army is meant to defend the geographical borders of the country, he said, adding that it should not indulge in politics. “We will eliminate the role of generals from the political scene once and for all,” he said.
‘Under protest’: Nawaz claimed that President Pervez Musharraf had wanted the PML-N to boycott the elections, but “we are contesting elections under protest”. “My nomination papers and those of Shahbaz Sharif were rejected under a conspiracy,” he alleged.
Addressing rallies in Multan and Khanewal on Monday, he said that if voted to power his party would end the price hike. He said January 8 was actually a day of referendum and asked the people to vote for the restoration of the judiciary, reported APP. He urged the people to vote for PML-N candidates for the prosperity of the country. agencies
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LOL. Too funny.
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More “seat adjustment” between the PPP and PML N. :hehe:
PPP men may join PML(N)
Two former Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders who were also offered party tickets for the general elections are likely to join Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Chaudhry Saifullah Cheema was given PPP ticket for NA-92, Gojra, but later the ticket was withdrawn from him and given to Chaudhry Khalid Bashir, who is a known transporter of the area. Disappointed Cheema, according to sources, attended Nawaz Sharif’s Monday’s public meeting in Faisalabad to protest his party’s politics. He is reportedly very close to announcing his participation in the PML-N. Similarly, former MPA Mian Muhammad Rafiq was given PPP ticket for PP-90, Toba Tek Singh, but he returned the ticket to protest the attitude of former federal minister Khalid Ahmad Kharal. According to Rafiq, Kharal had harmed him during previous elections. Feeling uncomfortable with Kharal, Rafiq had returned the ticket and decided to contest the elections as an independent candidate. Later, Mian Junaid Anwaar, who is now PML-N ticket holder for NA-93, and PML-N district president Chaudhry Amjad Ali Javed persuaded Rafiq to join their party. They invited him to attend Nawaz Sharif’s public meeting in Faisalabad’s Dhobi Ghaat on Monday, which he did. Rafiq is now likely to bag PML-N ticket for the constituency PP-90.
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Lol. PPP and PML (N) don’t know whether they are coming or going.
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Well they are going into Musharraf’s election, whether they like or not.
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Well they are going into Musharraf's election, whether they like or not.
I believe it was question of survival for PPP. If BB had boycotted the election, then PPP would have been finished. At least PPP will now continue to survive.
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Again If Bb loses the elections, Mush will go too. PML-Q can not win any seats at their own. The only winner in this scenario will be PML-N. aor NS nay agala pechla hisab kadna hay. NS is not history, he is very much alive in active politics of Punjab.