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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan appeared before an election tribunal on Saturday and shared evidence of rigging in the National Assembly constituency of NA-122 during last year’s general elections.
This is the same constituency from where Imran Khan contested the election. Official results showed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Sardar Ayaz Sadiq as the winner with 93,389 votes against Imran’s 84,517 votes.
In July 2013, Imran filed a petition before the tribunal, alleging that massive rigging had taken place in the constituency.
Imran told the tribunal – headed by Justice Kazim Ali Malik – that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supporters forced his party’s polling agents to leave the polling stations without examining the election and counting process.
“The PTI polling agents were not handed over attested copies of [the] election result and some persons forcibly got their signatures on blank papers,” he said, adding that the PTI agents also received death threats.
“Meanwhile, the PML-N in collaboration with presiding officers and returning officers (ROs) manoeuvred the election results,” Imran said.
He appealed to the tribunal to call for production of the documents. “Inspection of record is necessary for collection of evidence. All the evidences of rigging are in the ballot bags of NA-122,” he said.
During the course of proceedings, Ayaz Sadiq’s counsel also cross-examined the PTI chief. The counsel asked Imran to explain why it had moved the petition before the tribunal some two months after the election.
The PTI chief replied that it took time to record the statements of the polling agents and to collect evidence. “Moreover, I had got injured and it was not possible for me to file an election petition immediately,” he added. After recording the statement, the tribunal adjourned the hearing till December 8, when it is likely to announce its judgment.
Later the PTI chief told media that he had provided the tribunal with evidence and that it is up to the tribunal to issue directives for the opening of bags and collection of further evidence of rigging.
“After inspection of record, everyone will know what happened in the elections,” he said, adding that if he were in Ayaz Sadiq’s place, he would not bother to get his ballot bags recounted.
Earlier, the tribunal dismissed an application of Ayaz’s counsel, seeking disqualification of the PTI witnesses. Ayaz’s counsel had said the attestation of documents describing duties of election agents was bogus as it was attested by a fake oath commissioner.
‘Faisalabad will have to sacrifice’
Talking to reporters after holding a meeting with traders’ associations from 50 markets of Lahore at PTI’s Lahore office, Imran Khan said Faisalabad will have to give its sacrifice one day for bringing about a lasting change.
“Faisalabad will have to face a one-day closure. Factories are also closing due to inflation. We are fighting for the people’s right. We will not force anybody to close business in Faisalabad but those who are against the policies of the government will support our call,” he said.
“Transporters have decided to support our call of shutdown and they will not ply any transport on Monday in Faisalabad. The district bar council has also decided to support us,” Imran added.
Imran, however, also called upon the government to pick up the threads of negotiation from where it had left off.
“Everything other than [the PTI’s demand for] resignation of [Prime Minister] Nawaz Sharif had been finalised in the negotiations.
“We have withdrawn that demand and now the dialogue should start from where it broke off. A joint commission and joint investigation team should be formed to probe the rigging allegation,” he said.
Later addressing his supporters at his sit-in in Islamabad, Imran said the PML-N’s lawyers always claim that he has not submitted evidence of rigging. “If you have not done rigging, then why are you hiding behind stay orders?” said Imran questioning Sadiq.
Talking with reference to his call for shutdown, Imran said: “The PML-N is really scared.”
Published in The Express Tribune, December 7th, 2014.
Vote fraud charges: Open ballot bags, see the fraud, says Imran – The Express Tribune
I was on a wedding yesterday and it seemed in the meantime, dozens of PDF members had fun accusing Imran Khan for not providing any evidence for rigging in past elections. Well, its obvious by now that he has NO evidence to present as those 4 accused constituencies have not been probed so far. His argument is that evidence of systematic rigging is inside the polling bags, and tribunal court is asking SHOW US THE EVIDENCE?
Has entire judiciary of Pakistan gone mad? Is this the way they treat every rigging case? When a defeated candidate goes to court for justice, judges say; show us the evidence, and when he says its inside the polling bags, count them up, courts just dismiss his case for not providing any evidence? What kind of kangaroo court and justice "system" is this?
This cannot go on for ever and Imran Khan must shut down entire country to stop this kind of nonsense for ever! Total number of all votes casted in any election in any constituency should be made readily available in court of law as needed because it come under PEOPLE'S RIGHT FOR INFORMATION in a democratic society. And if one needs forehand PROOF to be able to do just that, then this bogus judicial system should be discarded before tomorrow as it makes a mockery of the very term called: JUSTICE!
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its like gopal krishan gokhale in india in british raj use to tear british policy with such brak through analysis that even british official fear to boast british are there for wlefare of india ..
just read below article in reference to pak
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The lodestar of Indian liberalism - Livemint
Gopal Krishna Gokhale is now a forgotten man even though both M.K. Gandhi and M.A. Jinnah were inspired by him in the years before they became mass leaders. Gandhi described Gokhale as his political guru while Jinnah aspired to be the Muslim Gokhale. However, the importance of Gokhale goes far beyond his influence on these two star disciples, who continue to be worshipped as the fathers of their respective nations. He was the lodestar of a style of liberal politics that needs a fresh airing in contemporary India. Gokhale died on 19 February 1915, so today marks the beginning of his death centenary. He was one of a stellar cast of patriots in Pune, at a time when that city matched Kolkata as a crucible of the new nationalism which emerged from the ruins of 1857. The Pune liberals had three principal concerns: political freedom, social reform and economic development. Everything they did in public life followed from their quest to advance liberty on these three fronts, and thus prepare the ground for a resurgent India after centuries of foreign rule, social oppression and economic stagnation.
The Pune liberals firmly believed that politics should have intellectual and moral foundations.
Gokhale as well as his guru M.G. Ranade were a perfect embodiment of that rare combination of head and heart, as is evident in their careful empirical analysis and policy prescriptions in the quarterly journal of the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, the house journal of the liberals, on everything from indebted farmers to the spread of education.
Gokhale’s grasp of economics was evident in his famous budget speeches as a member of the Imperial Legislative Council, when he took the colonial government to task because its policies were damaging India;
no less a person than John Maynard Keynes praised his mastery of economic logic.
He was also a great lover of mathematics; a textbook on arithmetic that he wrote was a standard prescription for school children for many years. The precision of his thinking could perhaps be explained by his love of mathematics, the most precise of intellectual pursuits. And Gokhale was also a very popular professor of history. Such intellectual depth was matched by a compassionate heart. He attracted young nationalists who wanted to serve the country. Gokhale had no shortage of critics who thought, with some justification, that he trusted the good sense of the colonial government too much. His personal record was also marred by a controversial apology to the British government. Yet, it is a testimony to his personal qualities that criticism did not degenerate into personal enmity.
His great political rival Bal Gangadhar Tilak wrote a moving obituary when Gokhale died at the young age of 49. V.D. Savarkar is said to have stood up in his favour when a group of revolutionaries in London wanted to assassinate Gokhale.
Men who held views that were antithetical to his could still be impressed by Gokhale. The liberal constitutionalism that Gokhale stood for was swept aside by the rising tide of agitational politics after 1920. Ironically, the two men who were responsible for this great shift were Gokhale’s disciples, Gandhi and Jinnah.
Politics based on the inner voice, satyagraha and direct action replaced the reasoned politics of Gokhale, with its rare blend of the intellectual and moral.
The quest to draw more people into the national movement compromised some of its core values embodied by Gokhale. That style of street politics has lingered on in India well after independence. B.R. Ambedkar had warned in 1949 that the continuance of agitational politics in a constitutional republic would eventually harm the Indian nation, as would the unthinking devotion to Great Leaders as well as persistent social inequality rooted in centuries of caste oppression
. His perspicacious warning was unfortunately ignored. India right now is perhaps on the cusp of political change. A young, urban and prosperous class has emerged after three decades of rapid economic growth. It could provide a base for a new liberal politics. There are important differences between contemporary India and the country that Gokhale served with such dedication. But his core beliefs about the importance of political liberty, social reform and economic progress for all Indians are still relevant to our times.
So is his insistence that means are as important as ends in politics, and that politics should have strong intellectual foundations.
Liberal constitutionalism had its high noon when Gokhale personified its lofty hopes. It was swept away by the rising tide of populism after the Gandhian takeover of the Congress in 1920. A hundred years later, the main concerns that Gokhale articulated are still relevant. They can offer fresh direction to a country that is once again at the crossroads. Can India today revive the spirit of liberalism?
Read more at: http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/xXm3N5vcfOr4TFRZsxpnsI/The-lodestar-of-Indian-liberalism.html?utm_source=copy
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