[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

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Democracy losing its case, parliament losing its value: Fazl​

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that in light of the 2024 general elections it is now a fact that democracy is losing its case and the parliament is losing its value.

“The parliament that you are seeing is not the representative of the people, this parliament is a birth of rigging in which some people will call themselves leaders,” he said while speaking to the media in Karachi.

“They will not be able to rule their hearts […] the people will not accept it with their hearts,” he said.

 

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Fazl decides to ‘go to parliament’ despite reservations, says 2024 polls more rigged than even 2018​

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that his party leadership decided to go to the parliament despite its reservations.

Despite the decision to participate in parliamentary politics of the newly elected National Assembly, he said that the party’s original position to reject the 2024 elections was being proven right.

“In the history of Pakistan, we used to think that 2018 was the biggest rigging that took place in the general election, however, 2024 has broken that record,” he said while speaking to the media in Karachi.

 

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Achakzai steals the show​

Regretted that some people wanted to turn the house, representing the people of Pakistan, into a cattle market

Rizwan Shehzad
March 02, 2024

Achakzai regretted that some people wanted to turn the house, representing the people of Pakistan, into a cattle market. Currently, Achakzai said that the politics had reached to a point where the one who was sold or the one, who was buying a politician, were considered loyals, but the one who refuses to become part of this sell and purchase was declared a traitor. “To hell with such approach,” he said.

Calling PPP a democratic party, recalling PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif used to raise the slogan of ‘Vote Ko Izzat Do [respect the vote] and stressing that Imran Khan had come in parliament via vote, Achakzai suggested that a resolution should be passed that “the establishment and security institutions will have no role in the politics of Pakistan.” It’s not a bad thing to suggest, he said, adding that all these parties admit that and were not oblivious to such interference.

In his speech, Achakzai said that the house should also pass a resolution that parliament will be the real source of Pakistan’s internal and external policies. “Only it [parliament] will make polices and no general will come in it,” he said amid desk thumping.

Emphasising the importance of having an army and intelligence agencies, Achakzai said that they themselves should show grace and truly disassociate themselves from politics, otherwise, people’s power would be utilised to push them back to garrisons.

Achakzai said that all the politicians from Jati Umra – the Sharifs brothers’ residence in Lahore – to the incarcerated PTI chairman would salute all the judges, politicians and political workers, who respected the Constitution, adding that all those who disrespected it were “Murdabad” [down with violators].

 

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Elections 2024 shattered record of rigging set in 2018: Fazl​

JUI-F chief alleges establishment ‘succumbed’ to international pressure

News Desk
March 03, 2024

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman addressing a press conference in Karachi on March 3, 2024. PHOTO: JUI-F

Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the head of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI-F), lambasted the recently concluded 2024 elections in Pakistan, accusing them of surpassing the previous record of rigging set during the 2018 polls.

Fazl made these assertions during a press conference in Karachi, where he claimed that mounting international pressure forced Pakistan's military establishment to yield, thus influencing the election outcome.

"The establishment's coercion will indeed be labelled as coercion. The establishment has divided its own ranks, accommodating some at one place and others elsewhere," he stated, addressing the alleged interference in the electoral process.

 

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This report shows the position of the members of the 6 Electoral Colleges and the presidential vote. According to Schedule II of the Constitution, each member of the 3-unit National Assembly (336), Senate (100) and Balochistan Assembly (65) has one presidential vote in the presidential election.

However, the votes of each of the 371 members of the Punjab Assembly, 168 of the Sindh Assembly and 145 of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly will count as 65 votes of the total members of the Balochistan Assembly. According to this calculation, a presidential vote consists of 2.23 members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, 2.58 members of the Sindh Assembly and 5.71 members of the Punjab Assembly.

At the time of polling, the number of seats in the house will be less in proportion to the number of votes. According to the rules, the one who gets more votes will be elected as the President of Pakistan.

Charts included in the report include total membership and vote statistics in all 6 units.

 

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PM Shehbaz presented guard of honour at Prime Minister House​

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is being presented with the guard of honour by smartly turned-out personnel of the armed forces at the Prime Minister House in Islamabad.
Following the ceremony, Shehbaz formally takes charge as the chief executive of the country.
Earlier, he was sworn in as the 24th premier of the country.

 

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PkMAP senators stage walkout in protest against raid on Achakzai’s residence​

Senators of the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) stage a walkout in the Senate session in protest over a raid at the residence of party chairman Mahmood Khan Achakzai.

The PkMAP has alleged that the raid was conducted at Achakzai’s residence in Quetta and was a reaction of “state institutions” after the party leader’s recent speech in the National Assembly.

 

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Zardari, Achakzai’s nomination papers for presidential elections accepted​

The Election Commission of Pakistan has accepted the nomination papers of Asif Ali Zardari and Mahmood Khan Achakzai for the upcoming presidential elections.

Both leaders submitted their papers over the weekend for the polls that are slated to be held on March 9. Zardari is the nominee of the allied parties while Achakzai is the PTI’s pick for the coveted post.

ECP releases list of candidates for the presidential elections

 

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@pmln_org

PM Shehbaz Sharif worked day and night for the development of Pakistan.
He has done it before, he will deliver again.
Even his detractors say that he worked hard and delivered.
He will prove to be an outclass PM!

 

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Gohar terms PM election ‘sad day for democracy’ amid uproar from treasury benches​

PTI MNA Gohar Ali Khan termed yesterday, which marked Shehbaz Sharif’s election as the prime minister, a “sad day for democracy”.

Speaking in the National Assembly, Gohar said, “None of us has imagined that such a person will be elected, the button of Pakistan’s atomic power will be handed over to someone who does not have a public mandate and has been in power for four decades, which are a living documentation of their personal gains.”

Referring to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, he said, “He has buried his grandfather’s politics. He does not become Bhutto by adding Bhutto to his name.”

The treasury then erupted into an uproar, at which the deputy speaker gave the floor to PML-N’s Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. Ashraf then asked, “If we have to continue matters like this, then will anyone think that we are fulfilling the purpose for which we have come?

“We have already incurred a lot of losses. […] If you would say something wrong about someone’s leader, then they would also not spare your leader.”

 

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Country needs ‘radical surgery’, says MQM-P’s Khalid Maqbool​

MQM-P’s Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has said that the country needs “radical surgery”.

Speaking in the National Assembly, he said, “Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary steps. Nothing will come out of conservative treatment; the country needs radical surgery.”

After Siddiqui completed his speech, NA Deputy Speaker Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah urged the lawmakers to work towards making the assembly’s atmosphere better

 

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‘Democracy present during past 22 years’: MQM-P’s Khalid Maqbool​

As Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui began speaking in the National Assembly, shouting from the opposition continued.

As uproar from the PTI-backed MNAs continued, Siddiqui had to pause multiple times during his speech.

Addressing PTI’s Ali Muhammad, the MQM-P leader said, “We are talking of reconciliation with you and you are getting upset at that too.”

While noting that there had been 10 prime ministers during the previous 22 years, Siddiqui asserted that the “continuation of democracy had been present” during these years.

Earlier, when PTI’s Asad Qaiser was speaking, the NA’s YouTube livestream was cut off and restarted when Siddiqui began his speech.

Khalid Maqbool speaks in NA.

 

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PTI demands formation of judicial commission on alleged poll rigging

PTI leader Asad Qaiser has also demanded the formation of a judicial commission on alleged rigging in the recent general elections.

Speaking in the NA, Qaiser said, “We want to create a very huge party and want to invite all those parties who have concerns on these elections, whether they are Balochistan’s political parties or Sindh’s or Punjab or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s.”

“We will gather everyone together for the Consitutition’s supremacy, for an independent judiciary, for civilian supremacy,” the PTI leader said.

“I want to ask Mian sahib if some conscience is awakening within you or not? Are you feeling any shame or not?”

Qaiser then demanded that a judicial commission comprising apex court judges be formed on the alleged rigging in the February 8 polls.