Pakistan Election Day: 11 May 2013, updates.

[ejaz007]

PML-N in trouble to make Balochistan govt

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is facing difficulties in forming Balochistan government, Geo News reported.

According to party sources, Sanaullah Zehri was not ready to come out from the race of Chief Minister slot, however, PML-N leadership, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) and Baloch nationalists have agreed upon the name of Changez Khan Marri for CM.

Sources added that Zehri was not ready to show flexibility over the issue.

The PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has stopped Sanaullah Zehri and Changez Khan for consultation process over the situation in Lahore, sources added.

PML-N in trouble to make Balochistan govt - thenews.com.pk

 

[Last Hope]

Pakistani politician Imran Khan has walked a short distance, two weeks after falling and injuring his spine at an election rally, his PTI party says.

Mr Khan was fitted with a brace and was able to stand upright, Shireen Mazari, the party information secretary said. He walked unaided for about 300m.

Ms Mazari told the BBC Mr Khan could be discharged from hospital on Wednesday.

The PTI gained significant ground during the recent general election, which was won by Nawaz Sharif's PML-N.

Dr Mazari said a series of X-rays on Mr Khan's spine had confirmed the continued healing and good alignment of his back bones.

"His X-rays were reviewed by a team of radiologists and surgeons who were very pleased with the results," she added.

 

[Bratva]

Some interesting facts about MQM.

When MQM initially won the elections in late 80's and early 90's, this was MQM's top leadership:

Chairman: Azeem Ahmed Tariq (the one in the picture)
Vice Chairman: Bader Iqbal
Secretary General: Imran Farooq
Deputy Secretary General: Khalid bin Waleed
Finance Secretary: S.M Tariq
Mayor of Karachi: Farooq Sattar (Last one alive)
Deputy manager: Raziq Khan
First 2 Senators: Nishat Malick and one more.

It is so regrettable and unfortunate that all these top leaders of MQM, except Farooq Sattar are dead, and all have been assassinated. It is also on record that all these leaders either left MQM (Bader Iqbal, S.M Tariq, Imran Farooq, Razik Khan) or developed differences with Altaf Hussain (Azeem Tariq, Khalid bin Waleed, Nishat Malick) before their death.

Interesting fact is that MQM has never ever tried to catch or even seriously demanded the capture of culprits who wiped entire leadership of MQM in last 20 years despite being in government for last 23 years

 

[fatman17]

Monday, May 27, 2013


PML-N gets enough heads to form govt on its own


* Party secures simple majority in National Assembly after 18 independent members submit affidavits with ECP to join it

By Tanveer Ahmed

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has secured simple majority in the National Assembly after eighteen independent members of the House submitted their affidavits with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to join the party.

Following the inclusion of the eighteen independents the strength of PML-N in the House has risen to 144. The PML-N secured 126 seats out of 268 on which polls were held on May 11. The National Assembly has a total of 272 seats on which legislators are elected directly. The elections were postponed on four seats because of death of contesting candidates.

The PML-N needs the support of 135 members to elect its leader of House, speaker and deputy speaker, and after securing 144 members, it will not need any support from the other parliamentary groups in the House. However, it has the support of PML-Functional, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, National Peoples Party and National Party which have five, three, two and one members in the House, respectively. With the support of these parties, PML-N candidates for the slot of leader of House, speaker and deputy speaker will have the support of 155 directly elected members of the House.

The PML-N is set to grab majority of the reserved seats for women and minorities. The National Assembly has 60 seats reserved for women and ten for minorities, which take the total strength of the house to 342. For every reserved seat for women, the support of 4.58 directly elected members is needed. Keeping in view the total strength of 144 members, PML-N will bag 32 reserved seats of women, and five of minorities out of the ten reserved for non-Muslims.

With the support of women and minorities elected on reserved seats, the PML-N is sure to achieve strength of 192 on its own which is quite high against the required strength of 170 in the incomplete House of 338. For simple legislation in the House, PML-N will not require the support of opposition by reason of having comfortable simple majority. However, for constitutional amendments, it would need the support of opposition parties like the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

On the other side, the total strength of likely opposition is much lower than the government side. The PPPP has secured 32 directly elected seats and PTI has 28 seats in the House. The MQM has 18 members, JUI-F 10, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) 3, PML-Q 2 and there are seven parties which have only one seat in the House. The combined strength of opposition would come out to 92. However, it has to be seen whether a joint opposition will come into existence or not.



bye bye Mr. 10%.

 

[fatman17]

The Hard Choices;

Pakistan's long term stability depends more and more upon the government's willingness to confront difficult economic policy choices it has long sought to avoid. Pakistan must begin to address a breadth of economic challenges that would overwhelm many emerging economies: overhauling the tax infrastructure, eliminating over $4 billion in circular debt in its energy sector, altering revenue sharing agreements among the provinces and the Federal Government, reversing a contraction in consumer credit and expanding financial access, removing price controls in commodity markets, preventing a crisis in water distribution, and breaking Pakistan's dependence on external financial support.

 

[Bratva]

 

[IceCold]

Dekho yar is koom ka almiya, PPP jaisi party jo ka abb Zadari ki rakhil bun chuki ha 31 seats la gai ha or abbi woh khul ker campaign be nahi ker pai. Imagine agar woh khul ker hisa leta to 50 seats to kahn nahi gai thin.

 

[Jango]

What do you folks think of the by elections? Any party which won from there can lose or it will be a straight forward affair?

Quite a few seats up for contest...Shahbaz Sharif NA seat, Nawaz Sharif Lahore seat, Imran Khan two seats, Javed Hashmi Islamabad seat, Chaudhary Nisar PP seat, Hamza Shahbaz PP seat etc.

Does PTI have a chance anywhere I.e the Nawaz Sharif seat, Shahbaz Sharif seat...

Btw, the current number of seats for PTI is 35, is it including the dual seats or only one seat per person?
@Leader, @Jazzbot, @hasnain0099, @Awesome, @Tiger Awan...

 

[SBD-3]

What do you folks think of the by elections? Any party which won from there can lose or it will be a straight forward affair?

Quite a few seats up for contest...Shahbaz Sharif NA seat, Nawaz Sharif Lahore seat, Imran Khan two seats, Javed Hashmi Islamabad seat, Chaudhary Nisar PP seat, Hamza Shahbaz PP seat etc.

Does PTI have a chance anywhere I.e the Nawaz Sharif seat, Shahbaz Sharif seat...

Btw, the current number of seats for PTI is 35, is it including the dual seats or only one seat per person?
@Leader, @Jazzbot, @hasnain0099, @Awesome, @Tiger Awan...

Cant say anything with certainty. Bi election results are usually not much different from the original results. Depends upon the turnover a lot.

 

[Jango]

Cant say anything with certainty. Bi election results are usually not much different from the original results. Depends upon the turnover a lot.

I reckon PTI can get a couple of seats from here and there, a couple in KPK as well for KPK assembly. The lead for Nawaz Sharif in Lahore seat was around 60k right?

 

[SBD-3]

I reckon PTI can get a couple of seats from here and there, a couple in KPK as well for KPK assembly. The lead for Nawaz Sharif in Lahore seat was around 60k right?

Well around 38K I suppose. Like I said things would depend upon turnover.

 

[Tiger Awan]

The ruling party rarely lose elections, Pti in KPK + Mianwali. Pmln strong in Punjab. Islamabad tough.

 

[Leader]

What do you folks think of the by elections? Any party which won from there can lose or it will be a straight forward affair?

Quite a few seats up for contest...Shahbaz Sharif NA seat, Nawaz Sharif Lahore seat, Imran Khan two seats, Javed Hashmi Islamabad seat, Chaudhary Nisar PP seat, Hamza Shahbaz PP seat etc.

Does PTI have a chance anywhere I.e the Nawaz Sharif seat, Shahbaz Sharif seat...

Btw, the current number of seats for PTI is 35, is it including the dual seats or only one seat per person?
@Leader, @Jazzbot, @hasnain0099, @Awesome, @Tiger Awan...

PTI will lose, though they would try to make it look neutral otherwise pmln can win all of these seats without a iota of doubt.

those who rigged general election, will not spare.

 

[pkuser2k12]

The ruling party rarely lose elections, Pti in KPK + Mianwali. Pmln strong in Punjab. Islamabad tough.

so why gillani brothers won in spite of pmln and pti unannounced alliance

and also pmlq and ppp alliance won in sargodah

there are many such examples

plus there was 3.5 crore bogus vote than in sytem which has been excluded now

point being when there are few seats media and parties are on every polling stations and dhandli cannot be done

and after 3 months of forming governments zimni elections are held so people can judge in which direction ruling party is going

so tough call now for ruling parties.

PTI will lose, though they would try to make it look neutral otherwise pmln can win all of these seats without a iota of doubt.

those who rigged general election, will not spare.

gillani brothers won in spite of pmln and pti unannounced alliance

and also pmlq and ppp alliance won in sargodah

there are many such examples

plus there was 3.5 crore bogus vote than in sytem which has been excluded now

point being when there are few seats media and parties are on every polling stations and dhandli cannot be done

and after 3 months of forming governments zimni elections are held so people can judge in which direction ruling party is going

so tough call now for ruling parties.

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/national-political-issues/251464-pakistan-election-day-11-may-2013-updates-484.html#ixzz2UyRJuOx1

 

[Leader]

so why gillani brothers won in spite of pmln and pti unannounced alliance

and also pmlq and ppp alliance won in sargodah

there are many such examples

plus there was 3.5 crore bogus vote than in sytem which has been excluded now

point being when there are few seats media and parties are on every polling stations and dhandli cannot be done

and after 3 months of forming governments zimni elections are held so people can judge in which direction ruling party is going

so tough call now for ruling parties.



gillani brothers won in spite of pmln and pti unannounced alliance

and also pmlq and ppp alliance won in sargodah

there are many such examples

plus there was 3.5 crore bogus vote than in sytem which has been excluded now

point being when there are few seats media and parties are on every polling stations and dhandli cannot be done

and after 3 months of forming governments zimni elections are held so people can judge in which direction ruling party is going

so tough call now for ruling parties.

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/nation...ay-11-may-2013-updates-484.html#ixzz2UyRJuOx1

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