Tag: Election

  • The Failure in the War on Terror – Not Osama but Musharraf

    Source: The Harvard Crimson The former head of the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligences (ISI) political cell recently confessed that he was responsible for political manipulation in Pakistans 2002 elections that led to Islamists coming to power in two provinces and gaining 59 seats in the National Assembly. This fraud was the work of the Americas supposedly…

  • TWA Internet backbone blocks only Blasphemous video URL

    Yesterday all Internet users in Pakistan were up in arms protesting the sudden censorship of the entire Youtube.com domain. A number of theories circulated which ranged from vote rigging videos to the cartoon video containing the blasphemous images disgracing our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Pakistan Telecommunication Authority the appointed monitoring agency had issued a notification blocking…

  • Judicial Bus to Leave Karachi on Saturday

    Sind High Court Bar Association has extended invitation to civil society, to join them in the first “judicial bus” leaving from Karachi to Hyderabad and back. The rally, accompanied by November 2 judges of Sind High Court will leave Sind High Court Karachi at 9 am, Saturday, February 23, 2008 for Hyderabad. On reaching Hyderabad,…

  • Vote Rigging Videos in Karachi – could this be why YouTube is blocked?

    A few videos appeared yesterday barely a few days following the elections showing some polling officers setting up the voting process. I have personally not seen them but am told that they show some serious election manipulations of the four videos that were online two have been deleted but two specific videos still remain available.…

  • RUMOR MILL: Zardari and Musharraf (rep) inside US Embassy

    It is being reported (1500 PST Geo News) that a high level meeting is underway inside the US Embassy with Asif Ali Zardari and representatives of Pervaiz Musharraf. The meeting is supposed to be with the US Ambassador and his staff trying to negotiate a peace / alliance between PML-Q and PPP. The report has…

  • Sheikh Rashid flees the country

    Sheikh Rashid was the first one to flee Pakistan after being humiliated in these elections. He lost both his seats, one by a margin of about 46,000 and the other by a margin of 62,000 votes. In the last elections he was elected from both these seats. Public love for him can be seen in…

  • BBC Radio Five Interview: Pods & Blogs

    Sabeen Mahmood and I were interviewed late last night (election night) by BBC Radio 5 it can be heard here while the show notes can be read on the BBC Radio 5 website (we are in the first 10 minutes of the show) [audio:pods_20080219-0343.mp3]

  • 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,…

  • Election Roundup (0630 PST)

    The rigging observed today by many observers was not enough to hamper the voice of the people. While there is plenty of documented evidence of rigging by parties notably the Q-League and MQM this was not sufficient to save them from a crushing defeat at the hands of PML-N and PPP. Details of the rigging…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…