Minorities’ votes may decide fate of 96 constituencies

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and they presented their catharsis on GS :D

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Above statement is not only wrong information but seems intentionally presented with wrong information for propaganda purpose to show as something done wrong by Musharraf government what was actually right thing what they did.

Truth is that, minorities can contest election and win seats from directly elected 272 seats, just like any Pakistani, so 272 seats are not Muslim seats but Pakistani seats. It is same as women can contest any of those 272 seats.

As for 10 reserved minority seats, they are there as it is difficuly for minorities to get elected directly in a country with 97 percent Muslim population, so these 10 seats give them sure representation in parliament. It is same with women who can contest election directly on 272 seats, but also have 60 reserved seats because their chance of getting elected directly is slim, so these 60 seats ensure their representation in parliament.

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The 2000 Jews who did not show up on 09/11 in New York applied for Pakistani citizenship and moved to Karachi :chai:

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I agree with Saleem. The minorities call, heeded by Musharraf, was for a single electorate system, Because before the minorities could only vote for reserved seats, this prevented minorities from being able to
a) Vote for their own local MP, which stopped them from having any local power
b) Affect national politics, because they could only impact a handful of seats.

Musharraf's reform allowed minorities to take part in the election of their local MP, and thus enabled them to affect the balance of political parties.

Removing the direct election of reserved seat MPs simply prevented a messy situation where minority voters would get to take part in the election of 2 different MPs, but Muslim voters would only be allowed to vote for 1 MP.

The 10 reserved seats, appointed by political parties, ensures that a minority voice always exists in the parliament regardless of who Christians and others vote for.

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In support of my post 22: I do not know if any person from minorities got elected directly in 272 general assembly seats, but I know of minority candidates getting elected directly in provinces. Here is name of one:

PS72 (Jamshoro): Dr Daya Ram on PPP ticket
http://www2.ecp.gov.pk/vsite/complete/Search.aspx?constituency=PA&constituencyid=PS-72

On top of that, minorities have 9 reserved seats.

Sindh Assembly:

General seats: 130
Women reserved: 29
Minorities reserved: 9
Total: 168

But then, Sindh assemblies had atleast 10 minorities members. One from general seats (could be more than 1 member, that I do not know) and 9 members on reserved seats.

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Oh, so you converted yourself? Because I ain't gonna vote for no Imran Khan. Comprende?

But hey, good to know that you now support action taken against Lal Masjid khariji takfiris.

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No there are no jews in pakistan ... anymore

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You said that Damad e Yahood is better than Damad e Saud so I counted your vote for IK . 8oo Jews and a Muslim .

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nahi uncle, I didn't say that.

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yahan vote cast ho rahy hain?

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I am sorry , He was Mr Khoji , I take my words back .
"8oo Jews and a Muslim" .

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sigh. I gotta say the post no. 26 all over again. So here it is:
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Oh, so you converted yourself? Because I ain't gonna vote for no Imran Khan. Comprende?
But hey, good to know that you now support action taken against Lal Masjid khariji takfiris.

**

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Lets come back to topic
Minority votes . PPP in past getting most of the . PML N is allso an active role . PTI didn't work on them but
I find them popular in Merasi votes .

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PPP will get votes from rural sindh where there are numerous hindu familes.

PMLN will NOT get minorities votes this time around. Their failure in protecting badami bagh debacle was all too evident. Add Gojra incident to that.

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Surprise i thought there were no jews left in pak,how come they all of a sudden appear on voters list.I never heard about any budhist in pak either.

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who will ensure a complete protection of these poor minorities in Pak?

lets make no mistake..there is a systematic genocide in place against minorities in pakistan with state's blessing

who has the courage to change islamic republic of pakistan to democratic republic of pakistan ... no one

who will make our Constitution secular so that minorities can be constitutionality protected....no one

lanat bhejta hoon main PMLN, PPP and PTI par

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i said this so many times and i say it again that we need fundamental changes to our constitution if we want to make meaningful progress for a progressive Pakistan where everyone is safe, protected and open to practice whatever he/she wants.....nahieen chayee hamay islam ka qila...hamay safe pakistan chayee!

dear guppies...the Pakistan ideology is to blame for most of the religious terrorism in the country today. Objective resolution is the chief architect...

*Once you created a nation in the name of islam, * It's only matter of time before a struggle for the creation of a radical republic will be in full motion...and we have seen that dynamics in full swing in pakistan

"why blame religious fundamentalist? they are only taking forward the idea of a Puritanical Islamic republic...."

himat karo..poora sach bolo...blame the ideology before blaming terrorists

can imran khan take these tough but fundamentally important steps? NOOO....then who cares....it will be same lepa topi

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State’s blessing? :hehe: that is so funny, which state are you talking about? There is no state, there is no government, the country has turned into a jungle… sorta ‘civilized’ jungle where people don’t kill/eat each other openly. Anything and everything goes. Everyone is being killed in Pakistan, you talk to Sunnis they will say ‘Sunnis are being targeted, only occasionally Shias are killed to show that its widespread’, you talk to Shias and you will think only they are persecuted, you talk to Ahmadis then the Qiyamat is upon them, talk to Christians and you will have same view. The fact is that qiyamat is on all Pakistanis who are not in government, who are not directly part of government or army. You can blame religion, ideology or whatever but that is a fact.

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They should include Shias, who could add to the minority vote significantly.

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Well then they should add real sunnis too. Their contribution will be even more significant.
But they should not include khariji takfiris. Because although minority, they are the cause of it all.