[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

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‘You talk about rule of law but never enforced it’: Ayub tells Shehbaz in NA speech​

Speaking in the National Assembly after losing the election for prime minister, Omar Ayub Khan lamented the situation of law and order in the country.

He noted that a large percentage of the country’s youth have it imprinted in their minds that the country has been marred with terrorism and violence.

“You talk about rule of law, but you never even enforced rule of law,” he said, addressing points made by Shehbaz Sharif just minutes earlier in his maiden speech as newly elected PM.

 

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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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