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The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday imposed a complete ban over advertisements in print and electronic media bearing any political party logo, name, images of party leaders and advertisements that directly or indirectly promote any political party or candidate and issued directives to the federal and provincial governments to ensure its implementation in letter and spirit.
According to the ECP notification it had been noted with concern by the ECP that as the forthcoming elections were approaching, there were frequent advertisements appearing in the print and electronic media which highlighted the achievements of the incumbent federal and provincial governments and that these advertisements with party symbols were being used to promote political parties by placing party symbols and images of party leaders therein. It stated that such advertisements should not promote party interests at the expense of public money and thus these were against the norm of level playing field, which could not be allowed to continue as it would amount to misuse the resources from the public exchequer for their self-interest.

ECP bars print, electronic media ads backing parties

So now PPPP and PMLN wont be able to do pre poll rigging on State expense !!

or atleast we wont see that big advertisements with the retard faces of Nawaz sharif and Nusrat Bhutto wagera !!!
:tup:




http://www.defence.pk/forums/nation...9-pti-moves-ecp-n-campaign-state-expense.html

and this is all thanks to PTI :tup:
 
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ECP faces another challenge

ECP faces another challenge - thenews.com.pk
Ansar Abbasi
Friday, January 04, 2013
From Print Edition





ISLAMABAD: While parliament, the opposition parties and other stakeholders have turned their blind eye to the thousands of appointments being made by the present government in important government department, the lone fighter in the civil service, Anita Turab, has approached the Chief Election Commissioner to take notice of what she called “recruitment in government as part of electioneering”.

Now the pressure is on Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin Ebrahim to respond to this unprecedented initiative taken by a young woman officer, who has already outshone everyone in the bureaucracy by fighting for the depoliticisation and revival of integrity and morality in the civilian bureaucracy.

Without mincing any words and daring to challenge the powerful and the mighty in the present political set-up, Anita Turab asked the chief election commissioner that since the incumbent government has already begun campaigning for the elections of 2013, the Election Commission may kindly issue orders banning further wide-scale employment, both temporary and permanent or otherwise, across provincial and federal government departments.

“Appointments in government departments should not be on a political basis at any time, and certainly not prior to an election,” she wrote in a written request to the chief election commissioner.

Anita Turab was the only civil servant in Pakistan who had protested against the Waheeda Shah slapping case and approached the apex court. In a crowd of three million government servants, she has yet again been the lone fighter who had recently won in the apex court a remarkable case where the SC has secured the tenure of government servants.

Anita’s letter to the CEC reads: “The federal government has advertised in the press for thousands of positions in government ministries and attached departments of which 8,816 are in the Ministry of Interior itself and its attached departments.

The present government had banned all permanent appointments in government departments in the last five years on the basis of financial austerity and economic crunch.In reality, however, many individuals were employed on contracts, usually in violation of prescribed rules and regulations.

The government comprises employees who are supposed to be hired on the basis of merit in order to maintain minimum standards of good governance. By failing to so hire, not only does this increase the burden on the exchequer and compromises the quality of officers and functioning of government departments where such appointments are made but it also erodes the morale of civil servants who have worked diligently for their positions.

Furthermore, and pertinent to the Election Commission, it is unethical that an incumbent government can abuse the process of hiring personnel as a gratuitous tool, using tax payers’ money, for its own political advancement as part of election campaign.

Accordingly, it is requested that since the incumbent government has already begun campaigning for Elections 2013, the Election Commission may kindly issue orders banning further wide-scale employment, both temporary and permanent or otherwise, across provincial and federal government departments.Appointments in government departments should not be on a political basis at any time, and certainly not prior to an election.”

Any one who believe that elections will be fair and transparent during Zardari regime.... is a fool of higher degree
Any one who do not speak against elections under Zardari's appointed beurocracy is sold out a.k.a Muk Muka!

Do we need more evidence?
 
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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan imposed on Friday a ban on using public money for advertisements given by the federal and provincial governments to promote their parties.

A press release issued by a spokesman for the commission said the ban would apply to advertisements appearing in the print or electronic media bearing party logo, party name, images of party leaders and directly or indirectly promoting any party or candidate.

The ECP asked the federal and provincial governments to ensure its implementation in letter and spirit.

The spokesman said: “It has been noted with concern that as the forthcoming elections are approaching, there are frequent advertisements appearing in the print and electronic media which highlight the achievements of the incumbent federal and provincial governments and that these advertisements with party symbols are being used to promote political parties by placing party symbols and images of party leaders therein.”

He said: “These were against the norms of level-playing field, which cannot be allowed to continue as it will amount to misuse the resources from the public exchequer for their own self-interest.”

The spokesman said the arrangements had been made to ensure free, fair and transparent elections under Article 218(3) of the Constitution and this duty had been reiterated in the recent judgment of the Supreme Court where the apex court had observed that “the Election Commission is fully empowered and independent to do all that is necessary to fulfil its constitutional mandate and instruct that it do so.”

PML-Q RESOLUTION: The ECP responded to a resolution adopted by the PML-Q expressing no-confidence against the commission.

The party had alleged that the commission was a mouthpiece of the PML-N and that it had failed to check rigging in by-elections.

Denying the allegations, the ECP clarified that it was absolutely neutral.

“The Chief Election Commissioner and four members were brought in by the mutual consent of all the political parties, and no one in the commission has any affiliation with any political party.”

The ECP said all the complaints made by the PML-Q before the by-elections conducted in Punjab were patiently heard and immediately redressed.

“Complaints by the PML-Q after the conclusion and submission of results by the returning officer have to be heard and tried by the Election Tribunal under the law,” the ECP said.

It said: “It is legally incorrect to challenge that the ECP failed to check rigging, if committed by any party in the by-elections.”

The ECP said all the parties and their leaders had expressed their confidence on measures taken by it to conduct the general election in free, fair and transparent manner.

About incidents of firing in the air in Sialkot, Gujranwala and Sahiwal during the by-elections, the ECP said the matters were reported to police and FIRs registered, the culprits apprehended and arms recovered.

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