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  • Pakistan Elections: Free, Fair and Transparent

    Guest Blog by temporal who blogs at Baithak The Pakistan elections are over and the people have spoken. But have they been heard? It is after midnight Pakistan time and the results are trickling in. It appears from early results that PML (Q) the king’s party has received a massive defeat. And both opposition parties,…

  • Missing Vote / Disenfranchisement

    These elections have been confusing, many claim it to be free and fair, while others have a different point of view, though my blog is brim full of stories of the other side I care to only share now my own personal experience at having gone out to vote. Did I want to vote? Plain…

  • Update @ 0101: Very Low Turnout & Ikhtiar Baig

    Posted by a voter from the NA-250 constituency on the People’s Resistance Network I went to vote at NA 250 (DHA College, next to Defence Imambargh). My name and my parents’ names were not on the list. We ran into Mirza Ikhtiar Baig [PPP candidate of that area] (along with his 8 body guards who…

  • Election irregularities being reported on other Blogs

    There are some interesting reports emerging on other blogs in Pakistan. Follow the links here KO: My voting experience in the 2008 elections, where he shares his voting experience KO’s own family where out of 10 people, only two were on the list, so 8 couldn’t vote. His friends: Went to vote, his vote had…

  • Report from NA-250

    Received from Noman on the People’s Resistance network Voting was very smooth at Jennings School (near Cantt station) and no complaints were seen or reported. MQM and PPP were both largely peaceful throughout the day. Just after polling ended at 5, we heard the sound of gunfire coming from a distance. Police arrived immediately (quite…

  • Update @ 1902: Reports of Voting Irregulatires across Karachi

    Shared from the People’s Resistance network who talked to various people in the NA-253 constituency Account 1: Voter was not registered but still went to polling station. she was told that she could still vote, and a ballot for someone who hadn’t shown up was given to her. For her spouse, who was not present,…

  • Update 1800: Observations from another voter

    Posted by Faris Kasim of the People’s Resistance network I was lucky enough to visit two very different polling stations today, clearly showing the inherent classism and divisions in Karachi (Pakistani) society today. I first went to my polling station in Bath Island, NA-250 with my family and was really impressed by the arrangements. Policemen…

  • Rigging in Gulistan-e-Jauhar

    Report from NA-256 Report appearing on the People’s Resistance network I live in Gulistan-e-Johar. We went to the polling station to cast our vote at around 3 pm. and we were surprised to see the transparent rigging….. There was only the MQM agents that were present there and none of the PPP or any other…

  • Update @ 1615: JUI-F Withdraws in favor of MQM, Rockets Fired in Jacobabad

    JUI-F a party of the ruling coalition has withdrawn in favor of MQM in Karachi and Sukkur. JUI-F a party of the ruling coalition [yet claiming to be in opposition] Also….several candidates from these parties in Sukkur announced support for each other in various PS seats this morning (KTN News) While there is reports of…

  • SMS Update @ 1545: PML-Q ransack ten polling agents

    SAC member Ahmed Iqbal reports from Narowal that PML-Q leagues armed gang members ransack ten poling stations, staff being harassed and PML-N agents thrown out

  • SMS Update @ 1530: SAC Member offered bribe

    SAC Lahore member Asif Mulick reports that supporters of Abdul Aleem offered him a Rs 2000 in cash to vote at Queen Mary polling station.

  • Beyond Belief: My first Pakistani voting experience – Narration from a Voter who witnessed cheating

    In NA-251 & PS-115 at PECHS Girls College, Karachi Reported on the People’s Resistance network The dhandli [cheating] I witnessed in the five minutes it took me to cast my first Pakistani vote was beyond even what a cynical person like myself could have imagined. I laughed in the face of its blatant-ness and had…

  • Summary of events at 1518 PST

    10 people killed so far today. Many injured. Blatant rigging. News of “staged” voting in front of foreign election observers News of abductions (atleast 4 PML-N workers’ abduction confirmed) TV Channel’s barred from conducting their own exit polls to verify the accuracy of the compiled results and not allowed to broadcast results without being “issued”…

  • SAC Hold Mock Elections in Lahore

    Members of the Student Action Committee had planned to hold mock elections in front of the Lahore High Court, reaching there early morning the police prevented them to setup camp but they instead continued the mock elections at another location. The turnout was massive with over 812 voters. Votes Against Musharraf = 782 Votes For…

  • Election begins with rigging, violence and trouble

    Not coming as much of a surprise, election starts off rather unpleasantly. Two friends who registered to vote in Islamabad went early to the polling station to find out that their names were missing from the designated polling station. Last night PML-N candidate Ch Asif Ashraf was assassinated in Lahore. In addition an MQM candidate…