[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

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NA win sets stage for Shehbaz election tomorrow​

Updated Mar 02,
In what appeared to be a dress rehearsal of the election of the prime minister, the newly-stitched ruling alliance passed the first test of showing its numerical strength on Friday when their nominees for the speaker and deputy speaker slots sailed through without any hiccup.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian (PPPP) clinched the two top positions in the National Assembly as PML-N’s Ayaz Sadiq and PPPP’s Ghulam Mustafa Shah were elected speaker and deputy speaker, respectively, on NA’s second day of the inaugural session.

The result of the election of the speaker and deputy speaker was a forgone conclusion as both Sadiq and Shah were the joint candidates of the PML-N, PPPP, and MQM-P, among others, who have clear numerical superiority over the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidates sitting in assembly under the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) banner

 

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Fazl arrives in Karachi, likely to skip NA sitting​

JUI-F secretary says Fazl to hold "important meeting", make a speech regarding election rigging.

 

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54pc Pakistanis say polls were transparent: report​

The Newspaper's Staff Reporter
March 3, 2024

ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has been alleging that it was deprived of almost 80 seats of National Assembly, a recent study claimed that 54 per cent of Pakistanis believed the elections were overall transparent.

The study was conducted by IPSOS, one of the largest research companies operating in 90 countries with more than 20,000 research professionals.

However, 39pc thought the February 8 elections were rigged. The highest perception of rigging came from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the province in which the PTI won majority, and where 73pc people believed that elections were rigged.

IPSOS in its study, “Post-election perception survey regarding transparency and rigging”, interviewed over 3,000 people from across the country.

 

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PPP ready to seek MQM support for Zardari’s presidential bid​

Ishaq Tanoli | Mohammad Hussain Khan
March 3, 2024

KARACHI/SEHWAN: The Pakistan Peoples Party on Saturday filed nomination papers of its candidate Asif Ali Zardari for the March 9 presidential election and announced that it would approach all parliamentary groups including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan to get their support for the PPP-Parliamentarian president.

Mr Zardari, who had earlier served as the president of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013, is set to run for his second term as the joint candidate of PPP and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz for the country’s top constitutional office.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and former local government minister Nasir Shah are the proposer and seconder of Mr Zardari, respectively.

 

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Action sought against PTI workers for ‘throwing’ shoe in KP Assembly​

Bureau Report
March 3, 2024

The photo shows PML-N’ Sobia Shahid holding a shoe and lota during the KP Assembly session on Feb 20.

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has submitted an application to the police for the registration of an FIR against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf workers for throwing a shoe and a lota at its woman lawmaker, Sobia Shahid, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Feb 20.

PML-N provincial president Amir Muqam told reporters at the Peshawar Press Club on Saturday that the PTI workers, who were involved in the incident, also shouted slogans and used derogatory language against the woman lawmaker.

He said that the Feb 20 incident showed that the PTI workers didn’t know how to behave when it came to women.

“The PTI had invited goons to the assembly who disrespected opposition members, particularly women. The PTI violated the sanctity of the house,” he said.

Muqam says party will move FIA if FIR not registered

Mr Muqam demanded of the assembly’s speaker to take action over the “attack” on the woman MPA.

Accompanied by lawmaker Sobia Shahid, PML-N Women’s Wing provincial general secretary Farah Khan and other office-bearers, the party leader said that what happened in the newly-elected provincial assembly in its maiden session was regrettable.

“Why do you take this thing [opposition] to enmity? If you’re given so many seats in the provincial assembly, what else do you want?”

 

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Shehbaz Sharif elected prime minister for 2nd time, vows to steer Pakistan ‘back to shore’ in victory speech​

Dawn.com
March 3, 2024

PM-elect Shehbaz Sharif hugs his elder brother and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in the National Assembly on March 3, 2024. — DawnNewsTv


After being elected as the 24th premier of Pakistan on Sunday, PM-elect Shehbaz Sharif vowed to steer the country “back to shore” with the help of allied parties in his second tenure in the top office.
Shehbaz won the prime minister’s election today after clinching 201 votes against his PTI-backed opponent from the Sunni Ittehdad Council (SIC) Omar Ayub Khan, who managed to secure 92 votes.

Following the announcement by National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Shehbaz hugged his elder brother and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, who was widely expected to become the prime minister following the Feb 8 elections but stepped aside for reasons unknown in favour of his sibling.

In his first speech on the floor of the newly elected house as the PM-elect, Shehbaz said that big challenges lay ahead in Pakistan’s path but they could be overcome “if we come together and decide to change the country’s fate” by taking it to its rightful position.

As he thanked his brother and allied parties for posing their trust in him by electing him as the leader of the house again, PTI-backed lawmakers from the SIC chanted slogans from the opposition benches, calling the siblings “thieves” — possibly a reference to their claim that the PML-N stole the mandate given to them by the public.

 

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Ahsan Iqbal advises PTI to stop mudslinging, serve Pakistan​

PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal has advised PTI leaders to stop the mudslinging campaign and focus their attention and energies on serving people as the country requires national unity at this time, APP reports.

“PTI has a track record of instigating chaos and blaming others for involvement in electoral rigging”, he said while talking to a private news channel outside the National Assembly.

He said the PTI founder would not get a National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), adding that, “he must demonstrate his innocence in court.” Iqbal also emphasised political stability, which he termed vital for achieving economic stability in the country.

 

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PDM 2 knows mandate was stolen: PTI’s Omar Ayub Khan​

PTI nominee for premier Omar Ayub has claimed that the coalition government is well aware that the PTI’s mandate was stolen in elections.

“The PDM 2 faces show that they know the theft [of the mandate] has taken place,” Ayub said, adding that the Feb 8 polls were a “selection”.