Pakistan Princely Party (PPP) and how it continues to destroy democracy in Pak

Sa1eem · February 5, 2008, 11:33am

Re: Pakistan Princely Party (PPP) and how it continues to destroy democracy in Pak

It’s pretty funny to see everyone agreeing on Saleem sahebs huge post, with “facts and figure” he has posted above.
No one ever questioned his figures and facts. More over failed to understand the strategy of the military rule and Yayas intension, which are falsely interpretated and acknowledged as Bhuttos mistakes by many Army rule lovers and Musharraf supporters.
Saleem Bhai, next time you do post some lies on ZAB put some more effort behind It.
IN one of your threads you stated something like this:“You am not against any leader of Pak (past or future), but you dont think Bhutto has done more than average by investing into nuke R&B (initiating) for his country.” Alone this statement proves that you dislike this person, regardless of what he has done or not done for us.
If you read on the historical events backed by many authores you will notice only mentioning military leaders, when refering to East and West Pakistan’s break up. More over you will find facts and figures related to the election quite different to what Saleem Saheb has posted above.
I would have refrained of such links to be hosted here, but you give me no choice Saleem. I dont want others to feel offended of what our Army has done in 1971. India took advantages of this uprising and supported East Pakistanis to Its full (using Bengalis as proxies) and our Army Generals failed to succeed coz of poor and false planning.
Unfortunately this articles has been edited by an Indian, but It states nothing but the truth.
The Tilt: The U.S. and the South Asian Crisis of 1971

Brother, you have all right to disagree with my analysis, but as far as facts and figures are concerned, it is not mine, neither I lie (I may make unintentional mistakes, but would not lie intentionally when quoting facts and figures). Though those facts and figures are available from various sources and I know it since long time (Bhutto PPP did not contested election in East Pakistan), I am putting some of many source available here.

Election 1970 … PPP did not contested on any East Pakistan NA seats, but AL and all other parties did.

Source one:
http://www.ppp.org.pk/history.html
(From PPP own site, with excuses for not putting any candidate in East Pakistan)
…
**There were not enough means and time to organize and carry the message of PPP to East Pakistan. The PPP, therefore, confined its election activities to West Pakistan and fielded its candidates in that wing. **
…
[Not enough means, what a BS … when PPP was one of the richest party that contested 1970 election, consisting of many rich Vaderas … where as Awami League and JI were poor parties. As for time, PPP started in 1967 and went into election campaign when other parties were not even thinking of any election in near future … especially AL that contested on 170 seats, 8 in West Pakistan.

If PPP confined to only West Pakistan, that no other party did, than how come Bhutto was thinking to get in power? Obviously, only those party were contesting to form government that were contesting election in both wings of Pakistan and had enough candidates to form the government.

So, if that is the case, Bhutto should have stayed satisfied as secondary party happy to get 81 seats, knowing that he did not even contested the election to get into power, and thus should not have even thought of asking Mujib to share power, when in reality it was only he and his party that was making so much ‘hue and cry’ about sharing power after election, on basis of West Pak and East Pak … idhar ham aur udhar tum]

Source two:
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A140&Pg=2
( This is a good book to read for ‘History of Pakistan’ that is available on net)

A total 1,957 candidates filed their nomination papers for 300 National Assembly seats. While after scrutiny and withdrawals, 1,579 contested the elections eventually. None of the political parties filed nominations of their candidates on all the seats. Awami League nominated 170 candidates out of which 162 were for the constituencies in East Pakistan. The party that filed second highest number of candidates was Jamaat-i-Islami. It filed 151 candidates. There were only 120 candidates contesting the elections on the ticket of Pakistan Peoples Party, out of which 103 were from the constituencies in the Punjab and Sindh. Pakistan Peoples Party didn’t nominate a single candidate from East Pakistan. Convention Muslim League nominated 124 candidates, Council Muslim League 119 and Qayyum Muslim League 133.

Souce three:

1970 General & Provincial Elections (From above site):

… Awami League ran 170 candidates, of which 162 were for constituencies in East Pakistan. The party that ran the second-highest number of candidates was Jamaat-i-Islami. It filed nomination papers for 151 candidates. The Pakistan Peoples Party ran only 120 candidates, of which 103 were from constituencies in the Punjab and Sindh. The Pakistan Peoples Party had no candidates in East Pakistan.

Source four:

… Awami League](Awami League - Wikipedia)** ran 170 candidates, of which 162 were for constituencies in East Pakistan.** Jamaat-e-Islami had the second-highest number of candidates with 151. **The **Pakistan Peoples Party](Pakistan People's Party - Wikipedia) ran only 120 candidates, of which 103 were from constituencies in the Punjab and Sindh, and none in East Pakistan. The PML (Convention) ran 124 candidates, the PML (Council) 119 and the PML (Qayyum) 133.