PM Choices

[araz]

FROM , day 1 i keep posting this secret plan of chor of nawabshah (zardari) ! & AS, IT appears clearly this plan was been put by THAG OF LAHORE (NAWAZ SHARIF).

BELIVE it, guys they already had decided how to get the power and how to share lootings. if they were not stopped from the thorne of power , pakistan is surely heading towards worst and biggest crouption of its short history. for this very reason ZARDARI doesnt want the BBs trusted people like AMIN FAHIM or NAHEED KHAN and there isnt a place for people like them in peoples party. any one doesnt agree with ZARDARI, doesnt have any future in the party.

ZARDARI & NAWAZ SHARIF , along with AITAZAZ going step by step systemticly crusing fine. there is no room for AMIN FAHIM, it looks that ZARDARI feel unsecure with AMIN FAHIM and he could not take any risk to nominate AMIN FAHIM as a primeminister even for INTERM PERIOD.

IT, couldbe wiser on the part of AMIN FAHIM to start establishing contacts with old party fellows withn party and outside party, i guss he can become a guide to all the real BHUTTO followers like, FASIL SALEH HAYAT & SHERPAO, SHERAFGHAN NIAZI or EVEN FATIMA BHUTTO. if AMIN FAHIM can do that ,then there is a chance that a party less than CHORs and their supprters canbe formed.

Batmannow!
we have all smelt this *** coming for a few weeks now. However, let him do his deed. The process has to be gone through. There will be fissures appearing in the party pretty soon and a forward block will form. there may be hope for all of us after all!
Araz

 

[mujahideen]

Get on with PM election

By I. A. Rehman

THE democratic norms demand that the country’s new Prime Minister must be elected forthwith and no later than Wednesday, the 19th of March 2008. That will be in accordance with the original scheme for the purpose in the Constitution of 1973.

Article 91 of the Constitution in its original form had provided for a swift installation of a new National Assembly and the election of a prime minister. It said: “91-(i) The National Assembly shall meet on the thirtieth day following the day on which a general election to the Assembly is held, unless sooner summoned by the President.

“(2) After the election of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker, the National Assembly shall, to the exclusion of any other business, proceed to elect without debate one of its Muslim members to be the Prime Minister.

“(3) The Prime Minister shall be elected by the votes of the majority of the total membership of the National Assembly.”

The article also laid down the procedure if no prime ministerial candidate secured the required majority.

This scheme offered no scope for any outside interference with the start of a new parliamentary year and the induction of a new government. The president was required to summon the National Assembly as soon as the result of the general election was announced but not later than the 30th day after the polling. On the very first day of its meeting the National Assembly was to elect its speaker, deputy speaker and the prime minister. The National Assembly and a new government could start functioning forthwith and simultaneously.

This reasonable and fair process was changed by General Ziaul Haq vide his Order 14 (w.e.f. March 2, 1985). The new article dropped any reference to the time-frame for the meeting of the National Assembly and fixed different days for the election of the speaker/deputy speaker and the prime minister. It said: “The President shall in his discretion appoint from amongst the members of the National Assembly a Prime Minister who, in his opinion is most likely to command the confidence of the majority of the members of the National Assembly.”

This provision was similar to the process in place before the 1973 Constitution was adopted. India has followed the same procedure. Under it the head of state invited the party winning a majority or emerging as the largest single group to form government. This led to a race among the various parties to forge a majority. Sometimes a person named as PM succeeded in getting a vote of confidence from the assembly and sometimes he failed. In the latter case all kinds of intrigues followed. There was room for manipulation by the head of state. Iskander Mirza started conferring prime minister’s mantle on anyone he liked.

Gen Zia’s objective obviously was to create space for his interference and to enable him to have a prime minister of his choice just as he wanted elections to produce results he could call positive (in his favour). He did not wholly succeed. After the 1985 election he chose, in his discretion, Mohammad Khan Junejo as prime minister, from amongst the partyless members. Under the Zia–Junejo compromise vide the 8th amendment, however, Ziaul Haq had to give up his discretionary power to name the prime minister. A new clause (2A) was added to Article 91 which says:

“Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (2), after the 20th day of March, 1990, the President shall invite the member of the National Assembly to be the Prime Minister who commands the confidence of the majority of the members of the National Assembly as ascertained in a session of the assembly summoned for the purpose in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.”

Gen Zia had assumed the assembly created by him would complete its term (till March 1990) and for that reason the new clause was to become operative after March 20, 1990. Obviously he did not take into reckoning his own capacity to destroy any semblance of constitutional order. In May 1988 he sacked the Assembly and Junejo both.

The 1988 general election was held before the new clause regarding the prime minister’s election by the National Assembly took effect and Acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan took quite some time to decide whether it was possible to name as prime minister anyone other than Benazir Bhutto, who headed the largest single group. As a last resort she was sworn in as prime minister.

Thus, there is now no confusion on the process for the prime minister’s election. He will be elected on the floor of the house and the president will be obliged to accept as prime minister whoever is so elected. The president cannot invite anyone else to become the prime minister and nobody else can claim the right to be invited by him.

Nevertheless, intrigues to frustrate the will of the people as demonstrated by the February 18 poll obviously continue. Every possibility of exploiting differences between PPP and PML-N, differences that are permissible in democratic coalitions, and to create a rift in the PPP itself is being examined. There is some talk of a wild plan to yoke a large PPP breakaway group with PML-Q to beat the Zardari-Nawaz Sharif alliance. It won’t work because the moment any member of the PPP or PML-N fails to vote for the coalition nominee he will lose his seat. Nobody will lose his seat for voting for the restoration of judges in violation of the party whip. Thus the new assembly seems less amenable to presidential manipulation than was the case in October 2002 when turncoats in the PPP could be used to enable the president to have his way by simply delaying the revival of the defection provision of the Constitution.

Be that as it may, there is no justification for delaying the election of the prime minister. Even the slightest delay will give rise to misgivings about some mischief or the other being hatched by the traditional enemies of democracy and the people both.

Now, all the five assemblies have been summoned by the president to meet on March 17 (another anomaly, as there is no good reason why the federal chief should have deprived the governors of the privilege of convening the provincial assemblies). On March 17 each assembly will elect its speaker and deputy speaker. The assemblies will be summoned again to elect prime minister/chief ministers. Was it impossible to issue an order laying down a schedule for the National Assembly’s meeting to elect the speaker/deputy speaker and fixing the next day for the election of the prime minister and prescribing a similar schedule for the provincial assemblies?

The summoning of the National Assembly immediately after March 17 for electing a prime minister will remove a lot of confusion and chances of confrontational posturing and unnecessary threats, that is, if the powers that be have any respect left for the people. Or any sense of shame.

Get on with PM election -DAWN - Top Stories; March 12, 2008

 

[mujahideen]

PML-N open to accept PPP nominee for PM

Hashmi claims 21 attacks made on democracy since polls

By Muhammad Anis

ISLAMABAD: The top leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday maintained that they would accept any nominee of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) for the slot of the prime minister.

PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif and President Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday held a brainstorming session with the party's central leaders here at the Frontier House. "We will accept the nominee of the PPP for the premiership but we have conveyed our desire that the nominee should be a person who can take forward the democratic agenda of the coalition, which we had reached at the summit declaration," PML-N central information secretary and MNA-elect Ahsan Iqbal told newsmen after the meeting. He said the nomination of the candidate for the premiership was an internal matter of the PPP and the PML-N leadership would respect the decision.

The meeting, which continued for nearly two hours, was also attended by PML-N Chairman Raja Zafarul Haq, General Secretary Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Chaudhry Jaafar Iqbal, Khawaja Asif, Ishaq Dar, Raja Afzal, Sardar Mehtab Abbasi, Ahsan Iqbal, Syed Zafar Ali Shah and others. He said the PML-N Quaid took the party leaders into confidence regarding his contacts with the PPP leadership and signing of the Murree Declaration.

Nawaz Sharif told the leaders that the implementation of the Murree Declaration and the Charter of Democracy would be ensured and decisions in this regard would be taken in consultation with the coalition partners.

He said Nawaz Sharif also pointed out that it was the first time that two major parties were united for the restoration of 1973 Constitution and reinstatement of the judiciary to the pre-November 3, 2007 position.

Ishaq Dar, who is also a member of the PML-N negotiating team, told the meeting that it had been agreed in principle with the PPP team that there would be an equitable share in the federal cabinet slots and the standing committees according to the number of the members of the National Assembly.

Javed Hashmi, while briefing newsmen regarding formation of the coalition government, said that top priority would be given to the restoration of judiciary to November 02, 2007 position. "We have come closer to the restoration of 1973 Constitution also," he maintained.

Meanwhile, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Muhammad Shahbaz met General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg at his residence. During the meeting, Nawaz Sharif told Aslam Beg that the restoration of judiciary was a joint agenda of the coalition parties.

Nawaz Sharif also met the Saudi Ambassador at his residence on his arrival in Islamabad. According to the party sources, Nawaz Sharif apprised the Saudi envoy of the issues relating to the formation of the coalition government.

Agencies add: Ahsan Iqbal said that if President Musharraf did not accept the mandate of the masses in parliament, it could lead to conflicts in the country. He said that today's meeting was very important for the days to come as some key decisions with regard to the formulation of the government were taken.

He termed the Murree Declaration as a historic step for the supremacy of democracy and the independence of judiciary in the country. "People who think they can dissolve the assemblies through 58-2(b) are living in a fool's world,î he said, adding that they knew how to tackle them. Makhdoom Javed Hashmi blamed the Presidency for carrying out 21 aborted attacks on democracy since the general elections.

PML-N open to accept PPP nominee for PM

 

[mujahideen]

Jamali terms Fahim as best choice for PM’s slot

ISLAMABAD, Mar 14 (APP):As a veteran and experienced politician Makhdoom Amin Fahim should be considered for the nomination of country’s top slot, PPP leader and former Chief Minister of Balochistan Mir Taj Muhammad Jamali said Friday.

Talking to PTV he said in his personal opinion Makhdoom of Hala is the best choice for premiership.

However if Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari decides to vie for Prime Minister’s slot PPP would extend its fullest support to him, he added.

Associated Press Of Pakistan - Jamali terms Fahim as best choice for PM’s slot

 

[mujahideen]

Zardari may nominate sister as interim PM

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari may nominate his sister, Dr Azra Fazal Pechooho, as the interim premier, according to a BBC Radio report on Friday.

Quoting close aides of Zardari, the BBC said that as he had not been elected to the National Assembly, Zardari could not become premier himself. They said he might nominate his sister as temporary prime minister instead. Daily Times had anticipated this possibility on March 11, citing Dr Azra as a “dark horse” candidate for the position.

 

[mujahideen]

Gillani told he will win the PM race

By Tariq Butt

ISLAMABAD: Veteran PPP leader Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani, who has pulled away from the electronic media glare, is going to carry the day by becoming the nominee of the party for the prime minister, informed PPP and PML-N leaders say.

"PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has told Gillani that he will be the final choice on the conclusion of his ongoing consultations with the MNAs-elect in groups," a senior party leader told The News.

Echoing the same theme, a prominent PML-N leader, currently engaged in crucial consultations with the PPP as part of his party's negotiating team, said according to his reckoning, the former National Assembly speaker was going to ultimately win the nomination by Zardari.

Another PPP leader said Gillani had been asked to stay low in the current hullabaloo so that he did not embroil himself in controversies unnecessarily. After saying that there is a very short distance between the Prime Minister House and the Adiala Jail a few days back, Gillani has not been active, which has made many to believe that he has opted out of the prime minister’s race.

Gillani had started his political career when he was made a member of Gen Ziaul Haq's handpicked Majlis-e-Shoora. He remained with the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) for a few years. Later, he joined the PPP with which his attachment continues to this day. He suffered a lot because of his imprisonment on a frivolous charge of recruiting people in the National Assembly Secretariat when he was its speaker.

While Gillani is away from the media blitz, Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, who has emerged as the apparent sole frontrunner in the race for the top slot, has made some interesting remarks to prove his "credentials".

For example, he has stated that a smooth working relationship can be worked out with President Pervez Musharraf. He has also declared that he would vacate the top office for Zardari after the latter’s election as MNA to assume the charge.

A political source said PML-N leader Khawaja Asif was "launched" to "discredit and ditch" Makhdoom Amin Fahim (MAF) on a wink from high-ups. "His outburst against MAF was not something out of the blue; it was well planned and well considered. It was intended to give a clear message to the MAF that the major coalition partner of the PPP was not willing to accept him as the candidate for the prime minister."

The source said this enabled Zardari to make it clear to the MAF that he could not name him as the PPP candidate because he had been opposed by his major coalition partner without whose support his party could not form the government at the Centre.

According to the source, there have been "wheels within wheels" in every party that keep turning on different vital issues, and many usually well informed senior party leaders do not precisely know why such eruption of angry remarks against the respected Makhdoom took place.

Before Khawaja Asif came out in the open, Nawaz Sharif had set the ball rolling when he had stated that anybody who was "wired" should not be nominated as the prime minister.

He had made this all-embracing remark during a news conference at Bhurban that he had addressed with Zardari following their historic accord to restore the deposed judges and form coalition governments at the Centre and in the Punjab.

The source said the PPP's nominee for the slot of the speaker and his domicile would be keenly watched. He said both the prime minister and the speaker were unlikely to be taken from the same province though such an arrangement might be a stopgap arrangement. However, Asif Zardari will take the final decision about the prime minister slot after consulting with the PML-N and ANP.

Gillani told he will win the PM race

 

[mujahideen]

PPP to announce its nominee for PM slot next week

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will announce its nominee for the prime minister slot next week. US news agency quoting PPP spokesman here said that the announcement of the name of the candidate for the post of prime minister would now be made next week. The spokesman further said that the parliament would ratify the nominated party candidate next week. The parliament will go into session as slated on March 17, when the newly elected members of the assembly would be taking oath.

Courtesy Geo

 

[Interceptor]

United opposition nominates Farooq Sattar as candidate for PM slot
Updated at :Sunday, March 16, 2008
ISLAMABAD: The united opposition on Sunday nominated Farooq Sattar of MQM as joint candidate for the slot of Prime Minister.

This was announced in a joint press conference of the United Opposition at the residence of PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, who had hosted a reception in honour of the opposition leaders.

Chaudhry Pervez Ellahi was nominated as the joint parliamentary leader of the united opposition in the National Assembly, said Farooq Sattar while giving briefing to the newsmen.

PML-Q will nominate its candidate for slot of speaker National Assembly, Mr. Sattar said, adding that newly elected MNA of MQM Khush Bakhat Shujaat will be the joint candidate for the slot of the deputy speaker National Assembly.

Geo Television Network

No way will MQM have PM for Pakistan they will get stoned to death for their mass murders and countless corruption through out Pakistan.

 

[mujahideen]

No way will MQM have PM for Pakistan they will get stoned to death for their mass murders and countless corruption through out Pakistan.

I agree. I dont even know why they are even bothering with even putting up a candidate. Everyone one knows the PPP will pick the next Prime Minister. And out off all the parties they pisked a regional party. I mean the MQM has a history of only focuing on one ethnic group.
The MQM would be the last party I would vote for. They are responsible for Karachi's lawless situation, but I must also give then credit for Karachi's development recently. I remember listening to the story when the MQM was first founded. People in karachi including my family voted for then, my father even went to hear Altaf Hussian's first public speech. When they first entered politics, people voted for them because of two reason. The first that out of all the parties they had the most educated candidates and the second they party was made up of the middle class no feudalism was involved. I would say MQM is itself responsible for its downfall when they decided to appoint the Pir of London Sir Altaf Bhai as their leader. I dont know why people listen to him I mean if he cared about the country he would be in Pakistan right now not in London. On his orders anyone can be killed in Karachi, and I can say that if President Musharraf did not include MQM in his government Karachi would of been burned to the ground already.

 

[mujahideen]

Speculation on next PM will end shortly: PPP

By Irfan Ali

KARACHI: Prominent members of the Pakistan Peoples Party in Karachi and the interior of Sindh have downplayed the dispute over the party’s final candidate for the position of prime minister despite overt differences between top leaders over Makhdoom Amin Fahim’s claim to the post.

“Nothing is unusual if one keeps the present circumstances in view,” said former federal minister Prof. N D Khan of the PPP. “The war of speculations will end soon.”

He stressed the new government was going to be formed and it would be a coalition one. But the next government needs to build consensus before taking decisions and it has to prefer the interests of the federating units when it makes them, he explained. This point was also taken up by Abdul Salam Thaheem, former education minister, from district Sanghar, who said that the party’s cadres were united.

“Makhdoom Amin Fahim is our senior leader and we all respect him. Asif Zardari has categorically stated that he respects Makhdoom. Both are responsible persons,” said the elderly Thaheem, adding that Zardari and Makhdoom would keep the PPP united and intact come what may. Commenting on the idea of the PPP’s coalition with the PML-Q and MQM, Thatta MPA Sassui Palijo said that both the co-chairman and vice chairman were well aware of people’s sentiments. “They can never be persuaded to join hands with the PMLQ-led former ruling coalition,” she said.

“It is 2008 and not 2002,” she stressed. “It is not easy for any ruler to disrespect the mandate of the people of Sindh and impose on them an engineered government with a split in our party.” Senior PPP leaders such as Nisar Khuhro have proposed that the candidacy for the top slot be decided through consultations. Pir Mazharul Haq, the nominated parliamentary group leader of the PPP in the Sindh Assembly, parried the question, however, saying that it was up to the central leadership to decide. As a matter of fact, neutral supporters of the PPP also back the candidature of Amin Fahim but senior leaders and those who know Makhdoom opposed his candidature for his lack of decision-making power. Senior members say that PPP needs the votes of the PML-N and the ANP to elect its PM candidate therefore the person must be acceptable to the coalition partners.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[mujahideen]

Five PPP stalwarts in run for premiership slot

ISLAMABAD, Mar 16 (APP): As Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is about to announce the name of candidate for the premiership, it has been confirmed that next PM would be one from the five hot favorite candidates.
“Next PM would be none other but one from Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Yusuf Raza Gillani and Azra Fazal Pechooho,” senior PPP leader Nabeel Gabol Sunday said, adding that candidate for the office of the PM is expected to be announced Tuesday.

He said the Parliamentary Party of PPP would unveil candidates for slots of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly in meeting summoned Monday -the day when newly elected members of the National Assembly (MNAs) would take oath.

Mr Gabol dismissed the rumors of rift within the party ranks over nomination of the premiership candidate and said all the MNAs have authorized co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari for the decision.

When asked about his nomination as the Speaker of the NA, Nabeel Gabol said he was unaware of any such decision.

Associated Press Of Pakistan - Five PPP stalwarts in run for premiership slot

 

[mujahideen]

MQM premier will be elected in 2013, says Farooque Sattar

ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement parliamentary leader Dr. Farooque Sattar has said that the prime minister in 2013 will be elected from his party. Talking to Geo News on his arrival at the parliament house Farooque Sattar said the five-year performance of his party has been in front of everyone. “It is rehearsal of the next elections and the prime minister in 2013 will be from Muttahida,” he said. “We would not thump desks in the house, neither create hurdles for the government,” Sattar further said. The popular vote of MQM has increased from previous six percent to nine percent, he added.

Courtesy Geo

 

[BATMAN]

United opposition nominates Farooq Sattar as candidate for PM slot

Where is the candidate from coalition of majority?

I heard Zardari is not graduate?

He is also not cleared from all the criminal cases?

 

[mujahideen]

^^Recently I read an article where the author says the college from which Mr.10% has claimed to have gotten his degree from doesn't even exist.

 

[BATMAN]

He should have given chance to his graduate daughter, but democracy has nothing do with PPP.