[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

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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”.

 

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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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