Re: LB polls transparent: Commonwealth report
I have brought in perfectly relevant questions, directly related to this very topic, namely as to why the opposition parties don't challenge the results in the tens of thousands of local council seats they have won, but only those that where they lost? If this is such a sham electoral process then why are they wasting their time and huge resources playing such an active part in it? The opposition parties of today are doing exactly what the opposition of previous years did i.e. the parties presently in power, of challenging those results not in it's favour. Nawaz did it when Benazir first came to power in 1988, then Benazir did it when Nawaz came into power in 1990, and then again and again in 1993 and 1997, respectively. The JI won the Karachi local elections in 2001, and never claimed rigging then, while now when they seem to have lost they are crying foul. The ANP and PPP have done rather well in NWFP - better than the governing parties in fact, so why are we not hearing allegations of rigging in these cases? As I have said it is a case of (for all parties):-
'If I win so it is fair and free' but 'if i lose then it is rigged!'