Musharraf's popularity poll a fraud?

[aryan2007]

SLAMABAD: A survey which showed that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's popularity would shoot up after he stepped down as army chief and became a civilian president may have been a fraud poll, a media report said on Monday.

The US-based International Public Opinion Polls (IPOP), which claimed to have conducted the survey, does not exist, the Daily Times reported on Monday.

The report said the comprehensive directory of polling and survey research organisations in the US did not list any organisation by the name of IPOP.

The IPOP website has no details about the organisation, including its postal address or phone number.

The PDF version of the poll posted on the website says that IPOP is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and gives its pin code as 02106, which does not exist on the US Post Office's website, the report said.

A press release from IPOP had claimed last week that 74 per cent of Pakistanis surveyed by it had said Musharraf's popularity would boost once he doffs his uniform. The release claimed that the survey was conducted in Pakistan's major cities through the internet and on telephone.

The poll, whose findings were carried by almost all local dailies, also said that 55 percent of respondents wanted Pakistan's political parties to take part in polls under Musharraf.

The survey was conducted before Musharraf resigned as army chief and prior to his swearing in as a civilian president on November 29, but the results were published only last week.

Musharraf's popularity poll a fraud?-Pakistan-World-The Times of India

 

[yarmook]

SLAMABAD: A survey which showed that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's popularity would shoot up after he stepped down as army chief and became a civilian president may have been a fraud poll, a media report said on Monday.

The US-based International Public Opinion Polls (IPOP), which claimed to have conducted the survey, does not exist, the Daily Times reported on Monday.

The report said the comprehensive directory of polling and survey research organisations in the US did not list any organisation by the name of IPOP.

The IPOP website has no details about the organisation, including its postal address or phone number.

The PDF version of the poll posted on the website says that IPOP is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and gives its pin code as 02106, which does not exist on the US Post Office's website, the report said.

A press release from IPOP had claimed last week that 74 per cent of Pakistanis surveyed by it had said Musharraf's popularity would boost once he doffs his uniform. The release claimed that the survey was conducted in Pakistan's major cities through the internet and on telephone.

The poll, whose findings were carried by almost all local dailies, also said that 55 percent of respondents wanted Pakistan's political parties to take part in polls under Musharraf.

The survey was conducted before Musharraf resigned as army chief and prior to his swearing in as a civilian president on November 29, but the results were published only last week.

Musharraf's popularity poll a fraud?-Pakistan-World-The Times of India

Daily Times of India announces list of frauds:-
-Quaid -e- Azam
-First Prime Minister of Pakistan
-General Ayub Khan
-Z.A.Bhutto
-Gen.Zia
-Prime Minister Junejo
-Nawaz Sharif
-Benazir Bhutto
-President Ghulam Ishak kHAN
-President Farooq Khan Leghari
-President Rafiq Tarrar
-President Musharaf
-All the assemblies for the last 60 years
-All political parties and political workers since creation of Pakistan
-Every activity towards progress for making Pakistan better
-Every Pakistani citizen
-Every Pakistani who feels proud to be Pakistani
-Armed forces of Pakistan
-Nuclear weapons of Pakistan
-Foreign Affairs of Pakistan
-Pakistani State itself as biggest fraudelent committed by man kind as per Daily Times of India by Ankush Kumar.


Bad news for daily timesof India is that Am still a true Pakistani!Long Live Pakistan and its People and Armed forces.

 

[IceCold]

Times of india doesnt even know how to spell islamabad, they missed I in it. Lol

 

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Musharraf is criticised in survey

Mr Musharraf insists January parliamentary polls will go ahead
An international opinion poll of Pakistanis suggests widespread public opposition to President Musharraf's re-election as president.
Most people are also critical of the imposition of the state of emergency.

The poll was carried out by the US-based International Republican Institute (IRI).

Meanwhile the president's lawyers say that he will soon lift the state of emergency, but only after ensuring that he cannot be brought before a court.


The IRI say that their field workers interviewed more than 3,500 adults across Pakistan in what was the first broad survey of public opinion since President Musharraf declared a state of emergency on 3 November.

It suggests widespread public anger about the measures taken by him.

More than 70% of those questioned said they did not support the President's re-election for another five year term.

Two-thirds said they wanted him to resign.

There was also strong opposition to the state of emergency itself - 70% of the people questioned said it should not have been declared.

A consistent majority - always more than 70% - opposed each of the main restrictions imposed by the state of emergency.

These include the suspension of the constitution, the ban on political rallies, the detention of the former Supreme Court judges and the curbs on the media.

Two-thirds of people surveyed said they thought the president's reason for the state of emergency was not to fight terrorism but to stop the Supreme Court from over-turning his re-election.

The president does still command some support but from a minority of about a quarter to a third.

The BBC's Jill McGivering in Islamabad says that this snapshot of opinion is already slightly out of date.

The president says some of his actions have been unconstitutional

The opinions were sampled in November - after the imposition of the state of emergency - but before President Musharraf took other important steps such as standing down as head of the army and confirming that elections would go ahead in January.

It was also completed before he said that would end the state of emergency on 15 December.

In a separate development, the president has formalised arrangements made last month to alter the constitution to ensure that decisions made during his term of office will be immune from legal challenges.

The president has conceded that measures he took to purge the judiciary, imprison political opponents and restrain the media were unconstitutional.

But he argues they were necessary to prevent political chaos and give the authorities more power to act against Islamic militants.

The president is expected to ensure the immunity measures are in place before he lifts the state of emergency.

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