Elections for 38 AJK seats today

[Gentle Typhoon]

then what BJP is doing in J&K

coz we dont brand our Kashmir 'azad' etc.

 

[Respect4Respect01]

Quoted for the truth.

same goes for both sides.

 

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out of 34 seats of legislative assembly of Azad Jamu Kashmir, PPP has won 19 and PML-N 9. After all this sh-it done by PPP, people are still voting for them. Un-freakin-believable. This is a trailer for next year's general election. Dont count on any substantial change.

 

[Dance]

out of 34 seats of legislative assembly of Azad Jamu Kashmir, PPP has won 19 and PML-N 9. After all this sh-it done by PPP, people are still voting for them.:

Or the elections were rigged

 

[Dance]

AJK elections: Balloting ends amidst accusations of rigging​

LAHORE:
Balloting has ended for Azad Jammu Kashmir elections across the country amid violence and rigging allegations. The vote count is currently ongoing.
The elections sparked widespread violence with reports of two people being killed in Mirpur and Muzzafarabad.

Also in Lahore, voting for LA-37 was cancelled by the Election Commission after workers of the PPP and PML-N clashed with each other.
More than 2.9 million voters were expected to take part in the elections. In Lahore, 13 polling stations were set up and at least 600 police officials were deployed to provide security to up to 6,000 voters in the city.

Eight polling stations were set up in Multan, Bahawalpur, Vehari, Rahimyar Khan, Layyah and Muzaffargarh, where around 18,000 people were expected to cast their votes.

Polling took place in Faisalabad and Jhang, with three polling stations in each city. Polling also took place in 18 districts of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, including Peshawar, Chitral, Dir, Mardan and Dera Ismail Khan.

Around 3,200 Kashmiri refugees were expected to cast their votes in the province.

Pre-election: Rigging feared in Punjab seats

As the Kashmiri diaspora in Punjab goes to the polls on Sunday (today), fears of a rigged vote have compounded after reports emerged that the Punjab government had sought to use a combination of threats and favours to influence the officials supervising the election.
Sources said that Punjab Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman, along with members of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s staff, have met with many of the presiding officers at various booths, most of whom belong to the Punjab Education Department, and asked them to facilitate any PML-N legislator who visits their polling booth.

Several of the officers, who teach at urban educational institutions, told The Express Tribune that they have been threatened with transfers to rural positions if they do not cooperate with PML-N officials. Some even said that they were given names of people to whom they were instructed to hand over the charge of the polling booths they are supposed to be supervising.

Sources familiar with the matter say that nearly all presiding officers have been provided luxurious meals and accommodation at guest houses owned by the Punjab government, though their mobile phones were reportedly taken away from them.
Meanwhile, a row has erupted between the federal and Punjab governments as Lahore has, at the last minute, sought to replace most of the federal employees supervising the election with those who work for the Punjab civil service.

Sources said that the Punjab government has asked the AJK Election Commission to replace nearly all federal employees supervising the polls, most of whom work for the Evacuee Trust Property Board, with employees of the Punjab government “in the larger interests of the province.”

While the AJK Election Commission is responsible for supervising the overall election, the polls for the eight seats that represent the Kashmiri diaspora in Punjab – numbering over half a million – is operationally within the hands of the Punjab division of the Election Commission of Pakistan. Sources say that the Punjab ECP has been instructed to ensure that a majority of officials appointed to supervise polling booths belong to the Punjab government.
The Punjab government’s spokesperson, Senator Pervaiz Rashid of the PML-N, did not return The Express Tribune’s calls seeking comment on these allegations.

Of the 41 elected seats in the AJK Legislative Assembly, 12 are elected by Kashmiris living in Pakistan. Six of those seats go to Kashmiris who have moved to Pakistan from AJK, while six are elected by Kashmiris who migrated from Indian-held Kashmir after Partition in 1947.

AJK elections: Balloting ends amidst accusations of rigging – The Express Tribune

 

[American Pakistani]

AJK polls: PPP wins 8, PML-N 2, MC 2

http://http://www.geo.tv/6-27-2011/82974.htm


Don't you guys think PPP did corruption here too, i don't think people are so dumb to vote world's largest corrupt party.

 

[Saifullah Sani]

coz we dont brand our Kashmir 'azad' etc.

you accept that J&K is not azad

 

[Saifullah Sani]

AJK polls: PPP wins 8, PML-N 2, MC 2

http://http://www.geo.tv/6-27-2011/82974.htm


Don't you guys think PPP did corruption here too, i don't think people are so dumb to vote world's largest corrupt party.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has secured majority in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly by securing 19 seats in elections on Sunday.

According to unofficial results of 34 seats so far, Pakistan Muslim League (N) stood at second position by grabbing nine seats, Muslim Conference got third position with four seats besides two independents.
PPP secures majority in AJK elections

 

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AJK polls: PPP wins 8, PML-N 2, MC 2

http://http://www.geo.tv/6-27-2011/82974.htm


Don't you guys think PPP did corruption here too, i don't think people are so dumb to vote world's largest corrupt party.

People arent dumb but they do ally themselves with their "braderi" members running the election. So, you have your Rajas, Maliks, Chouhaans, etc, their braderi walay will vote for them regardless of which political party their member is associated with. A zaat, braderi of Malik will only vote for a Malik, doesn't matter if that Malik will in turn be with PPP.

Unless you wanna call that dumb and idiotic, then yeah, they are. And looking at the massive lead by which PPP won, I don't think they won by rigging. Majority of the polling stations were in AJK and no reports of disturbance from that region came. Just a few from major punjab cities but that would hardly give the ppp such a massive lead.

 

[Bhairava]

you accept that J&K is not azad

No it is a part of the Union of India just like the other 28 states . We say it openly and not pretend like Pakistan.

 

[EjazR]

High turnout marks AJK polls Lastupdate:- Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:30:00 GMT GreaterKashmir.com

Muzaffarabad, June 26: The general elections were held in the Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK) on Sunday amid tight security arrangements.
Heavy contingents of police and paramilitary forces were deployed on the polling booths to maintain law and order.
Out of 41 seats, the elections to 37 seats of the Legislative Assembly were held while as the Election Commission had postponed polling for three seats (LA-30 Karachi Jammu-1, LA-36 Karachi Kashmir Valley-1 and LA-41 Abbotabad), citing security reasons.
Officials said the polling has been largely peaceful. However there were reports of sporadic violence and frequent disruptions in the polling process in some constituencies in AJK and Punjab.
At least two persons were killed and dozens injured in Bhimber and Muzaffarabad.
In Bhimber a PML-N worker was killed allegedly during clashes with the PPP workers whereas another person was killed at Niazpora polling station in Muzaffarabad.
Talking to Greater Kashmir, Advocate Aquab Hashmi said the polling in the region has been relatively peaceful. “But there were rumors of shoot-out in the outskirts of border town, Nakial,” he said.
On voter turnout, Hashmi said it has been quite encouraging. “But the condition of showing identity cards could affect the turnout, particularly in rural areas. Polling has ended and the counting process is underway. The EC would formally announce the results after completing this process,” he said.
Due to the scuffle at various polling stations, election was postponed in constituency LA-37 valley-II Lahore.
Athar Masood Wani, a spokesperson of Pakistan Muslim League-N at AJK blamed the PPP workers for creating mess. “As a result the elections were postponed,” he said. The PPP however accused the PML-N of poll-rigging in Punjab.
Commenting on the electoral process, noted journalist Sardar Aashiq Hussain said the turnout would be quite high this time as the two largest political parties (PPP and PML-N) were contesting the polls in PaK.
Pertinently, the MQM boycotted the general elections after the Election Commissioner postponed elections to two Legislative Assembly seats of Karachi, reserved for Kashmiri migrants. The former deputy speaker of PaK LA and the MQM leader, Muhammad Saleem Bhat said that the PPP government had deliberately set-up polling stations in Karachi areas where MQM workers and voters had reservations. “The law and order was used as a pretext to put off the polls,” he said.
Meanwhile, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front workers staged a protest demonstration in front of Islamabad Press Club against the elections.
Addressing the protesters, the Front leaders termed the polls as a “sham process devoid of the essence of democratic discipline.”
They said “there is an undemocratic system in place where there is no room for the people who support and subscribe to the independent Kashmir ideology.”
“The legislative body being established under the given circumstances can’t represent Kashmiris’ aspirations,” they said, adding, “The people of the region want abolishment of the interim Act of 1974 and revocation of Karachi Agreement.”
The protesters alleged that the people were fed-up with the system and want to set-up a governing body by consolidating Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK into one unit.
The JKLF activists also held protest rally in Kotli and Dirkot (AJK).

 

[Kashmiri Nationalist]

The polling was mass-rigged with a lot of fraud, I can attest to this. Whenever elections come, people talk of Agencies being involved and who they will swing for; vote-buying and bogus voting (on Party Orders) is done too. There are no free and fair elections, and we'll be hardpressed to find any of such a nature in AJK's history.

 

[Zibago]

nawaz sharif is kashmiri refugee from srinagar google it

azad kashmir is part of pakistan but it is azad from india that is why it is called azad kashmir it has its own law used to have its own army till it volintarily joined pakistan and no kashmiri is in favour of joining india and azad kashmir has highest literacy rate in pakistan of 72 percent