Party NA PP PS PB PF
PPPP 87 78 65 7 17
PML(N) 66 10 10 0 5
PML(Q) 38 66 9 17 6
MQM 19 03 8 0 0
ANP 10 0 2 1 31
INDEPENDENT 27 35 1 10 18
TOTAL RESULTS 258 285 125 46 91
so Pakistans Peoples Party and PML-N gain lead in elections. The general elections have given clear lead to Pakistan Peoples Party in National Assembly while another opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-N has also attained obvious gains in the polls.President Pakistan Muslim League-Q Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and his 22 former federal ministers have faced clean defeats in the elections.
Losers:
Several political stalwarts were defeated in elections including President Pakistan Muslim League-Q Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Speaker National Assembly Chaudhry Ameer Hussain, secretary general Pakistan Peoples Party Jahangir Badar, chief of PPP-Shaheed Bhutto Ghinwa Bhutto, Hamid Nasir Chattha, former chief minister of Sindh Aftab Shaban Meerani, MMA leader Maualana Fazl-ur-Rahman from Dera Ismail Khan, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Hyderi, Fakhar Imam, Begum Abida Hussain and Sughra Imam. The other prominent politicians that have suffered setback in the elections included Rao Sikandar Iqbal, Naurez Shakoor, Ejaz-ul-Haq, Shaikh Rashid, Liaquat Ali Jatoi, Ovais Leghari, Ishaq Khakwani, Sikandar Hayat Bosan, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Khalid Ahmed Lund, Khurshid Mehmud Kasuri, Humayun Akhtar Khan, Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain, Dr. Sher Afgan, Wasi Zafar and Yar Muhammad Rind.
According to unofficial results of 256 National Assembly seats Pakistan Peoples Party has won 86 seats, while Muslim League-N remain victorious at 65 seats and former ruling party PML-Q trailing far behind with 37 seats. Awami National Party (ANP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have won 19 seats each, while other political groups and independents won 27 seats.
Winners:
The political leaders that have returned back successfully included Asfandyar Wali, Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Jam Muhammad Yousuf, Manzoor Wattoo, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Yousuf Raza Geelani, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Sardar Asif Ahmed Ali, Chaudhry Perwaiz Elahi, Khwaja Saad Rafique, Faisal Saleh Hayat, Dr. Farooque Sattar, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Abdul Qadir Baloch and former chief minister of Sindh Sardar Ali Muhammad Mahar.
The vote turnout remained at 45.6 percent at 181 constituencies of the National Assembly, the election commission sources said.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
February 18th, 2008-Election Day
Salamona everyone. So the Election Day is approaching fast and InshAllah this Monday voters are going to polls to determine which party is going to run Pakistan (of course after the CIA, World Bank, IFP, AB, ISI etc.) Although, unfortunately I won’t be able to vote in the election but I think I have done a fair bit in the election campaign to at least feel better. I worked on the campaign of Tariq Hameed Khattak in Nowshera where his constituency covers my village and Arbab Najeebullah covering our Peshawar residence. Also, while baba (my dad) was out of the country for Hajj I made some preliminary arrangements for Asfandyar Wali Khan’s proposed invitation to our hujra in the village. Although I must admit, nothing beats putting a stamp right next to your choice of candidate, I wish the elections were held on the original planned date in January, I would have certainly been able to vote then.
But over the last few weeks I, like many others, am beginning to question the integrity and fairness of the forthcoming elections. Pakistani politics have been complicated even by the mere standard that they ARE politics. For years our beloved president Musharraf maintained that he was not going to let Mian saheb and Bibi (Benazir Bhutto) let back in the country. But not only did he let both of them in, he also made a deal with Bibi where all the corruption charges were dropped. At one point when the deal between the president and late Bibi seemed to be going South, our honest Attorney General said that corruption charges might be brought back against Bibi should she choose not to cooperate with the President. Did I mention that this statement came from our ATTORNEY GENERAL?
The murder of Bibi has been shrouded in mystery as well. As always, Islamabad has blamed Taleban and more specifically Baitullah Mehsud for this murder. They funny thing here though is that Mr Mehsud has denied any involvement. Usually groups like his are very quick in accepting responsibility for acts like such and actually militant groups jump to take credit for such incidents but that did not happen to be the case here. In a press conference, the interior minister also presented an audio tape where he claimed that Baitullah Mehsud was accepting the responsibility for bibi’s murder but since then the minister has been taken to the cleaners by the media for several things that did not add up in the alleged Mehsud tape.
Now back to our round and naughty Attorney General again, there is an audio tape out on the streets where allegedly he has been boasting to his peeps that the election is not going to fair and free by a long shot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7247667.stm
No wonder a good deal of people in Pakistan think that the election is going to be rigged.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7244018.stm
I think for all intensive purposes, an election in the province of Balochistan is going to be invalid. All the Baloch parties and major Baloch tribes are boycotting the election. Tribes staying on the sidelines include names like the Bugtis, Marris, Domkis, Mengals, Zarakazis, Bazenjos, Dehwar, Bungalzai and of course many others. In the Pushtuns areas of Balochistan (Pushtuns make up 45-55% of the province’s population), the largest Pashtun nationalist party, Pukhtunkhua Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) of Mehmud Khan Achakzai is also staying out. Remember that PkMAP was the largest party in the National Assembly from Balochistan in 90 and 93. There are also a large number of plotical and tribal leaders in the province who are either in jail and exile or worst yet, died in Islamabad’s military incursions in the area over the last few years. I think it would be fair to say that regardless of what happens in other parts of Pakistan, an election in Balochistan will simply be formality carried out by Islamabad.
Election in Tribal Areas and Pukhtunkhua province has been marred by violence. There have been attacks on the offices and rallies of all major political party.
http://bachakhan.com/blog/360400/Shahadat_of_ANPs_workers
It will be interesting to see how Sunday and Monday go, 48 hours is an eternity in politics especially Pakistani politics.
(http://chowk.com/articles/13617)
But over the last few weeks I, like many others, am beginning to question the integrity and fairness of the forthcoming elections. Pakistani politics have been complicated even by the mere standard that they ARE politics. For years our beloved president Musharraf maintained that he was not going to let Mian saheb and Bibi (Benazir Bhutto) let back in the country. But not only did he let both of them in, he also made a deal with Bibi where all the corruption charges were dropped. At one point when the deal between the president and late Bibi seemed to be going South, our honest Attorney General said that corruption charges might be brought back against Bibi should she choose not to cooperate with the President. Did I mention that this statement came from our ATTORNEY GENERAL?
The murder of Bibi has been shrouded in mystery as well. As always, Islamabad has blamed Taleban and more specifically Baitullah Mehsud for this murder. They funny thing here though is that Mr Mehsud has denied any involvement. Usually groups like his are very quick in accepting responsibility for acts like such and actually militant groups jump to take credit for such incidents but that did not happen to be the case here. In a press conference, the interior minister also presented an audio tape where he claimed that Baitullah Mehsud was accepting the responsibility for bibi’s murder but since then the minister has been taken to the cleaners by the media for several things that did not add up in the alleged Mehsud tape.
Now back to our round and naughty Attorney General again, there is an audio tape out on the streets where allegedly he has been boasting to his peeps that the election is not going to fair and free by a long shot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7247667.stm
No wonder a good deal of people in Pakistan think that the election is going to be rigged.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7244018.stm
I think for all intensive purposes, an election in the province of Balochistan is going to be invalid. All the Baloch parties and major Baloch tribes are boycotting the election. Tribes staying on the sidelines include names like the Bugtis, Marris, Domkis, Mengals, Zarakazis, Bazenjos, Dehwar, Bungalzai and of course many others. In the Pushtuns areas of Balochistan (Pushtuns make up 45-55% of the province’s population), the largest Pashtun nationalist party, Pukhtunkhua Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) of Mehmud Khan Achakzai is also staying out. Remember that PkMAP was the largest party in the National Assembly from Balochistan in 90 and 93. There are also a large number of plotical and tribal leaders in the province who are either in jail and exile or worst yet, died in Islamabad’s military incursions in the area over the last few years. I think it would be fair to say that regardless of what happens in other parts of Pakistan, an election in Balochistan will simply be formality carried out by Islamabad.
Election in Tribal Areas and Pukhtunkhua province has been marred by violence. There have been attacks on the offices and rallies of all major political party.
http://bachakhan.com/blog/360400/Shahadat_of_ANPs_workers
It will be interesting to see how Sunday and Monday go, 48 hours is an eternity in politics especially Pakistani politics.
(http://chowk.com/articles/13617)
Imran's Tipu Sultan speech in Peshawar 12 Feb 08
Imran Khan: "MQM gives us threats. I want to tell Altaf Hussein about myself, listen: I travel alone, I don't have any bodyguard with me, God willing when I die I pray to Allah that I don't die a jackal's death like Atlaf, if I die I will take a bullet from the front. God willing, I will go to prison again. Altaf, I am telling you this right now, big jackal Musharraf and little jackal Altaf both listen to this: I am going to Karachi and will come fully prepared with myself, try and stop me!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPfQNvXSjrg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPfQNvXSjrg
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