2018 Elections

2018 Elections
election results in 2018..PTI than just a pukhtun based party literally surged in Punjab and karachi to emerge as the largest party with 114 seats in the national assembly

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Jan1-15, 2024

Jan15-2024--PMLn finally released  from the pressure of courts says that the PTI symbol was actually danda rather than bat with which they tried to beat up the state...with the court cases over the PMLn can move in to electioneering..with the PPP edging up it is going tobe a difficult election..in the last three elections there have always been major changes..what happens in this one is open to interpretation and the probable forecast is a three way divide between PPP, PMLn and the PTI independents...with the spoils also up for grabs for the Juif, IPP and PTI-p... whether the Mqm can sweep karachi or not with the JI/PPP stronger...how the independents fare is questionable and whether the PTI has a party ready by than for them to join...in the following map of 2018 elections... PTI - orange..PMLn grey..PPP ferozi...black majlis amal...light brown-BAP...

election positions of parties in last three elections...2008-2013-2018.......below plus legend for above map...



The above describes the economic condition of the people which saad rafique of the PMLn  describes as better than the one before...both the pmln and PPP think that electricity tariffs and inflation are a big problem followed by problematic healthcare..PPP suggests 300 free units for everybody and solar power stations  in all districts...

Jan15-2024--Pakistan lose second t20 match to new zealand..problems are in the opening batsmen and the failure of azam khan/usama mir  to score a reasonable number of fast runs...they have an alternate keeper hasibullah, and two other spinners...sahibzada farhan is a steady opener and they can ask saim ayub to slow down... and hasibullah can open too..the two other spinners are also experienced...Pakistan should realize that new zealand have capable batters and bowlers...chasing 10 or above per over  from new zealand could be difficult if they donot improve their batting...

Jan14-2024--three policemen killed in quetta and one in lakki marwat 

Jan14-2023--US-Britain carry out air raids on houthi sites in yemen with over 150 attacks on 30 sites....houthis have been attacking shipping in the red sea..turkey called the US retaliation disproportionate...

Jan14-2024--five soldiers killed in Kech IED bomb explosion...in NW-DI khan operations four militants killed

Jan14-2024--ECP say that PTI not tobe allowed to stand on Pti-n tickets..as it is not allowed to represent two parties...standing as independents is not a difficult task...

Jan14-2024-- during the SC hearing the police raided the residence of Gohar ali khan in F7..police later said that it went to the wrong address...reasoning ..to look for PO's...!five policemen suspended...

Jan14-2024 --In a landmark decision the SC decided that the ECP is a regulator of political parties and conducter of elections and overturned the PHC decision on the bat symbol and PTI intraparty elections...The judges were concerned about the malafide intent of the ECp but the pti lawyer could not provide any details on bias...and whether an intraparty election had actually taken place..The pTI could produce no record or of payment by candidates..There might also have been a drama of the gohar ali khan residence being robbed and possible negative pressurizing of  the CJ...the CJ also mentioned that the PPP symbol of sword had been taken away too..with symbols being given tonight the PTI has no time left for a review..Their plan B of the PTI-nazriati letting them use their symbol also seemed in trouble...that leaves the pti candidates running as independents and the pti issuing lists of their independents and candidates making sure people know who is the pti candidate...This shows the very bad  risky stance of imran of continuing to attack ECP chief sultan sikander raja needlessly...who looks like an ordinary innocent guy being browbeaten by the head of a powerful macho party...!there was also the propaganda that gohar ali khan was just a nominated front and all decisions came from imran..PTI should now hold a regular intraparty election where nominations are made, voted on and announced publically...give the 840000 members of pti the  right  to vote...in intraparty elections first...!generally this could benefit the other parties mainly the PPP and to a lesser extent the PMLn...pti could study shifting their vote bank to other pti offshoot parties...or even directly to the PPP...The judges said that they take the work of constitutional organs very seriously...some said that it was a guilotining of the pti..many remember that the pti wanted to guillotine nawaz sharif during its dharna on parliament...!as far as fundamental rights go many doubt that a party has any ...while people's right to vote for a party is affected to a certain extent independents do win elections all over the place...the candidates can/should get leaflets featuring their name/picture/symbol into each voters hand...!and since the pti is out of the picture they could give pti-nazriati  whatever they want to use their name and symbol...! In the longterm this is a consequence of what happened on May9...

Jan13-2024--PMLq pulls out of alliance as PMLn only agrees to support two sons of chaudhry shujaat in gujerat...sheikh rashid left with no allies on na57

Jan13-2024--PTI brings forth lineup for 234 NA seats, mostly lawyers, women and leaders relatives

Jan13-2024--The dictatorial nature of the pTI should be considered a threat..while the bat symbol or batsmen or any symbol is of no consequence to other political groups...however holding intra party elections thru party nominations  is a fraud on party members who are not allowed to stand for even party chairman...and a nobody politically and in the party is made chairman...The pti ruled dictatorially and is also behaving similarly out of government...

Jan12-2024--The courts supporting one party in an uncontrolled scenario could lead to a worst type of  dictatorship like the one faced in east Pakistan...in any event it could lead to a martial law type scenario say some as well...

Jan12-2024--The IHC has cancelled the defacto provincial government run by the chief commissioner islamabad and asked federal government to take over administration of Islamabad...this to discourage the DC on the issue of arrest orders under MPO

Jan12-2024--proceedings in the SJC against Justice Mazhar to continue..the former judge has filed a detailed response to the charges and witnesses will be called to testify..some say that the bandial clique has been broken up. While a senior counsel said that a purge is taking place...while another called it a national witchhunt...PMLn's Maryam Aurangzeb  demanded that Justice Ahsan must be held accountable...she said that he could not be  exonerated from terrible actions against democracy and the constitution...she said he called the PMLn a sicilian mafia and put together gems of his choice in the JIT on panama papers...she added that the top court would be strengthened...while the PMLn may have nothing todo with current fiasco the former infighting under Bandial may have a lot todo with it...both may have been part of the PTI cartel in the court...

Jan12-2024--another senior SC judge ejazul ahsan has resigned from the SC..he was tobe the CJ later this year...this leaves the way clear for Justice  Mansoor Ali Shah. Justice Ahsan had run into trouble with the CJ on various issues including the proceedings in the SJC on Justice Mazhar, judicial independence and not attending meetings on friday as he jetted of to lahore before office close...it is yet not clear whether the proceedings in the SJC on Justice Mazhar will continue or be ended...Justice Esa is  more liberal and has no problems with recent laws made by parliament and has also suspended the justice ahsan led decision on military trials. 

Jan11-2024-- plethora of judicial reasoning is coming to the fore and probably more is on the way...one particularly heard the disqualification clauses being called not self-executory and guidelines for the people...people rarely read the constitution and they actually guide courts and the ECP..Now Justice Ayesha has come out with the reasoning that ordinary citizens should have a fair trial...this in the May9 mayhem and their trial in military courts...obviously this would not have happened if the SC had been attacked and burnt down...these days there are courts for terrorism, narcotics and accountability...are those courts based on the concepts of fair trial...usually they are based on the views of the government or Nab or public opinion...one thing is very basic that Justice Ayesha and Afridi think that military trials are not fair trials .That means that we do not give our military men fair trials. If it is a constitutional right than trials under the military or army act are unconstitutional for everyone and should be done away with...That is not correct. Military trials have everything that is needed for a fair trial and can be appealed to the army chief...victims or accused are represented by military officers/lawyers and can produce witnesses...there is also oversight by the judge advocate general...it is not open and shut...civilian courts are also intertwined with the executive in one way or the other. There is no such thing as an ordinary citizen. And if a magistrate gives a verdict for a military trial...! In normal protests people are let off within days...but these were not ordinary protests but attacks on military infrastructure almost countrywide...and according to imran conducted by his personal army according to party orders...

Jan11-2024--a IHC judge says that a time will come when intelligence bosses will face trials  for enforced disappearances...if u take this in regard to the Baluchistan missing persons than the involvements of liberation/terrorist organizations must also be considered...overall the fauj, MI, ISI, Levis, police, FC and in some cases, corp commanders and police chiefs...missing persons have recently been found from as far away as karachi and the baluchistan border in may9 cases...some even escaped to canada and england...or disappeared in sialkot...

Jan11-2024--poll candidate killed in north waziristan along with two others...GDA leaders car rammed in dha karachi...PMLn candidate in Na 258 aslam buledi critically wounded in turbat...JUIf candidate injured in rawalpindi while a sunni leader shot dead...tribunals allow almost everyone to contest even those absconding in May9 cases...

Jan11-2024--musharafs death sentence for treason upheld posthumously as SC overturns LHC verdict...

Jan11-2024--three cops and two soldiers killed in KP...a police checkpost was attacked in kohat killing four(one civlian)...two soldiers and two militants killed in exchange of fire in lakki marwat

Jan11-2024--in a second overrule of its own judgements the PHC reinstated  the PTi's bat(chimgadar) symbol and its sham fraudulent elections /nominations...many say the PHC is new in this field and does not know what it is doing and does not have authority in the rest of the country...others say it is the manifestation of a pukhtun party..ECP studying its response..it could go for an appeal in the SC and the SC too could hear the case after the elections or quickly decide the issue...

Jan11-2024-- apellate tribunals turn down imrans appeals on two NA seatsna89 and NA-122

Jan10-2024--a supreme court judge facing an SJC show cause  has resigned saying he was not being provided an opportunity to defend himself. He was accused of cancelling the musharaf death sentence which was recently reinstated...in contrast to  a reference to study the death sentence of a former primeminister...the former primeminister was accused of using a federal agency FSF to eliminate political opponents from Kasur using army soldiers...the judge mazhar ali naqvi is also accused of amassing a staggering amount of wealth and involvement in audio leaks..no details of the wealth have yet emerged...it shows justice ejazul ahsan in a poor light who supported the judge and is supposedly to be the next CJ...previously the SC has avoided going against SC judges in various cases including the present CJ whose wife  had three houses in england...and a former CJ accused of getting free paid holidays with his family in  monaco/lichenstein amounting to 300000dollars. That CJ had three terms as CJ ...however a supposedly right wing  IHC judge was removed who accused the ISI of interfering in his court cases.

Jan10-2024e--Imran a former prime minister has been arrested in  a dozen more cases in the May9 violence including the Rawalpindi GHQ attack..he and his wife are also accused of running away with most state gifts at throwaway prices..imran apparently made over 300 million during his stay in power about ten times his earlier wealth...he says that he is being victimised for reigning in the powerful quarters...meaning that he attacked the GHQ to control the powerful military...!generally he and the military/ISI were very friendly and "literally hand in  glove"... until the PDM orchestrated a divide between him and the military chief on the appointment  of a new ISI chief and than the bilawal orchestrated no trust removed him...he seems to have been in power to make wealth...he apparently collected millions in donations ...16 billion annually and further billions in party funding from dubious sources.

Jan9-2024--accountability court freezes assets of Malik Riaz  and his son as well as several PTI leaders in a 190million pound corruption case

Jan9-2024--six cops killed in Bajaur on polio duty after a blast targeted their vehicle...one soldier killed in north waziristan...

Jan9-2024--The SC overturned a previous judgment/judgments disallowing a lifetime disqualification under article 62(1)(f)..technically a disqualification now can be for five years ...the court seemed to suggest that people are allowed to stand in elections and elect whom they choose...despite the various qualifications needed under articles 62(1) f, d, e and g which are therefore just guidelines for the voter until further amendments clarify the matter...court literally acting against its former activism...it would be enlightening to see what it says in the reference on ZAB's death sentence...where the CJ has pontificated  that the court  can reopen cases where a injustice is proven...the PPP points to a Nasim Hasan Shah interview that the judgement was given under pressure. The courts always are under some sort of pressure in Pakistan..That suggests that the court could allow the LHC to rehear the case..That would be a major judgement..i suggest that the court should ask the president to pardon Zulfikar ali Bhutto...whatever the faults in the judgements/sentencing and the administrations maneouvering...!That Zulfikar ali bhuttos defence was faulty goes without saying....

Jan8-2024--the pti suggests that internet blocking took place around 6pm... during which they conducted a telethon to beg for alms...imran has enough funds personally...his wealth apparently increased tenfold while in government...i personally did not feel any blocking...The pti has a general policy of howling unfair treatment about everything...The ECP says that 76% of PTI's election applications had been accepted...most rejected had also been accepted by tribunals...in the national assembly 598  of 843 applications have been accepted...that is about two applications for every seat...The pti thinks that it can fool the people, administration, fauj,  judiciary and police all the time...

Jan8-2024--watchdog assures SC of fairplay...says 76% of PTI nominations papers accepted.

Jan8-2024--internet outages hit PTi 's bid to launch manifesto and a telethon...

Jan7-2024--careakers to probe May9 incidents...

Jan7-2024--the maulana is important politically in Baluchistan and KP...while the BAP resolution in the senate is non-binding it is important to study the rationale...that some areas in Baluchistan and Punjab maybe snowed in... the cold weather should have eased up quite a bit by February the 8th...however if conditions are difficult in some areas the elections can be delayed in those specific areas. however, the maulana is in Kabul and could help in easing the situation in the tribal areas viz the TTP...some say that the maulana has shifted towards the Pti recently...a delay of a few or upto three weeks would generally not make any difference however there always are some who benefit more than others. Many would see it in the light that the BAP would like to stay in power longer viz Kaker Kuker...!others suggested that the Taliban might be interested in twisting the maulana's arm to support imran...the Pti would like him as a imam but not as a leader in KP...he is said to command majority support in many areas barring Hazara...the TTP or militants have been attacking military infrastructure in his area of DI khan which is outside the main tribal areas of KP...

Jan6-a lone wolf non binding resolution passed in senate to delay elections due to weather and other consitions

Jan6-2024--Sunni ulema council's masood ur rehman usmani  gunned down in ghauri town

Jan6-2024--numerous PTi candidates cleared to contest polls.

Jan5-2024--CJP regrets disqualification clauses thrust on parliament.

Jan5-2024--electricity consumers to pay Rs4.13 per unit more in January

Jan5-2024--KP landmine blast kills three kidsin Mir ali 

Jan5-2024--PTI turns to SC to get back its bat symbol...!

Jan4-2024--PTi loses bat symbol again as PHC says order was issued without hearing ECP.

Jan4-2024-- mohsin dawar survives  gun attack in miranshah as did a juif candidate a ied attack in bajaur

Jan4-2024--Electric fence around diplomatic enclave to go live today

Jan4-2024--TTP, IS-K, BLA behind 82% deaths in terror attacks says PIPS inits security report for 2023

Jan4-2024--CJP and IHC support baloch protestors...

Jan2-2024--power went on and off in rawalpindi yesterday all day stabilising some what  late at  night...disruption apparently due to a blast and fire in a guddu switchyard which tripped the power plant...which tripped three 500kv and 220 kv lines...effecting a place literally in the north with numerous power plants lying shutdown is some sort of a record of inefficiency...

Jan2-2024--Buner is a very hidden place  in the hilly mountains near swat...it was a place where the TTP literally fought the pakistan army and there were burned out tanks on the hillsides after the TTP fled...that is the home of the new chairman of the PTI...apparently he had been given the task by none other than imran to burn down a military installation in Buner...after searching he could not find a military installation so he burned down his own home saying it was a hideout of the secret police...as a reward he has been made PTI chairman...apparently he has received his bullet proof kevlar coat already...!he is probably one of the secret commanders of imrans personal army...

Jan2-2024--some are raising a ruckus on the number of rejections by the RO's..the maximum in the NA rejections are 45% in islamabad  with an overall 13.70%...In the provincial assembly an overall rejection rate of 11.99% with a maximum of 21.59% in baluchistan...The trouble makers mostly from the PTi and its supporters said that the RO's are generally malicious and biased  against them. however there are more GDA rejections in sindh while overall the PTI leads...many regard it as their lack of experience and ineptness given the nature of their troublemaking arsonist bitter leadership...Gohar ali khan the buneri said that they have stopped issuing statements against the army  after he took over...however most of their nobodies (followers) continued making dubious and strange allegations against the army with even a judge yahya afridi saying that the army was responsible for the arson attacks because they did not fire on the trouble makers...according to some only firing in the air was seen at the iSI residences of Ojhri camp...as people thought about it and did not congregate their...many have questioned why the army did not protect their infrastructure and instead ran from places like the corp commanders residence in lahore...election tribunals will study the final decisions on appeals by jan12...there are various issues like sheikh rashid not mentioning his 3 marla plot in some village...he responds that he has mentioned 1200 canals of dubiously acquired land and three marla's hardly means anything...shah mahmud qureshi rejected in  sindh for not paying water bills...!others have been rejected based on various theories of non payment of bills, conviction, not appearing in person and absconding from the police etc...a few have been questioned on  disqualification...The PTI had filed over 2000 applications for 40 na seats and 90 provincial seats so they do have leftovers on all seats...The anti pakistan nature of the PTI was apparent as they even started their propaganda campaign in england against the RO's rejections..it is the process and RO's make decisions by themselves as well on complaints...

Jan2-2024--The chinese leadership meaning Xi has purged the armies leadership. Senior officials have been removed on the charges of corruption which can mean anything in China..many regard it as Xi's anger over failures in frightening Taiwan, policy in the south china sea, producing new missiles and lack of equipment and spares...while China has a greater political outreach its military is restricted to the taiwan strait and the south china sea having a shortage of aircraft carriers and aggression oriented warships...many suggest that the military leaders must have been discussing and critisizing Xi's economic failures...!

Jan1-2024--happy new year and best wishes

Jan1-2024--infiltration bid foiled as 3 militants killed in Bajaur...one soldier killed in another attempt to cross over in north waziristan...there was also exchange of fire in spinwam on the night of dec31...

Jan1-2024--five terrorrist killed in Awaran operation




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How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...

How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...
how bhuttos got into politics in 1958...

debacle in Dacca

debacle in Dacca
total humiliation...India had steadily destabilized east pakistan over twenty years playing on ethnic, financial, development and military concerns...pakistan was not that rich at that time and the ethnicists played on phsychosis generated by cyclones, floods, tea and jute...the army and west pakistani politicians could not accept a bengali dominated government and a small army contingent could not defend against the mukti bahini and the indians as teh US withdrew its support as usual...When teh going gets tough teh US chickens out as usual...!! The indians have continued teh same themes in karachi, sindh and balochistan but similar tougher responses have not allowed their success although pakistan is now at best a divided land with a pathetic center...!!While it left pakistan numb at the time many now feel the seperation was a proper solution as east pakistanis did not get along with pakistan and they would be better able to solve their problems with india...others still pine away for the lost land of rivers, tea and jute...others suggest that india should handover kashmir in exchange...while some still want to repatriate those considered pakistanis and left stranded in bangladeshi camps...others however heave a sigh of relief as teh problems with the remaining provinces are generally insoluble.....and ethnic regionalism or provincialism mixed with economic and racial nonsense is not a pleasant mode of politics anyway...

allah be praised

allah be praised
allah be praised...i do own forty factories but the people think i am a pauper...i really donot need sarkari umra's....please allah i did not promise imran khan the government when he fell off the platform...cant u make him my slave and not ask for recounts...!

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