[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

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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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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.