Allegation's Of Rigging, A Mere Face Saving Or A Reality ??

                        Allegation's Of Rigging, A Mere Face Saving Or A Reality??              

It's a total disgrace and ignominy how few ignorant and clueless souls trying to pollute and scandalise the political acumen and good judgement of people in Pakistan, they came out in million's despite threats of bombings and target killings in different parts of Pakistan. They came out, their verdict was very assertive, clear, giving absolute mandate to different parties in different Provinces and in Centre as well. Election Commission Of Pakistan led by "Fakhar-U-Din G Abrahim" did a remarkable job and made a very sincere and honest effort to make these Elections historic and clean, they pretty much achieved their goal and delivered on their promise. While Pakistani Army, Judiciary and Care Taker Government must be credited for assisting Election Commission of Pakistan for achieving their set milestone. But as we witnessed in past, print and electronic media was flooded with allegations of rigging, but most interesting and funny part is,  these allegations  are directed to areas where they lost the Elections by thousands of votes but places where they won, supposedly GE were very clean and beyond any doubt,  really "defy the logic". Now let us find out if there is any truth to these allegations, mud slinging on "Election Commission Of Pakistan" and in few cases on "Honourable Judiciary" by Parties especially "Change Agents" who think they have been robbed off a thumbing victory by a corrupt and crumbling system of Pakistan??.

                                                     

1) History was re-written in Pakistan regarding Care Taker Set ups, we have seen in past puppets serving the masters in Care Takers Set ups and obeying their commands who be the next Prime Minster of Pakistan. King Makers decided much before the GE who was the chosen one, just look at 2008 GE when an NRO between Dictator Mushraf and Benazir Led PPP paved the way for their Government in 2008 . But this time round after historic Amendments in Constitution, independent care takers were placed and irony of the matter is, not a single one proposed by PMLN was able to run the show but rather it was PPP proposed choices were selected in all the provinces and in Federal Government. In Sindh we saw some funny things happen, MQM who remained part of the PPP led collision came out of that coalition just a fort night before GE and manipulated the system in its favour and selected "Dare I Say" the care takers of their choice. Only Punjab witnessed massive Administrative reshuffle from a Patwari to Chief Secretary which infect is a good precedent but others provinces and Federal Government failed to do that, So question must be asked who is the beneficiary, PMLN or Others??.

                                                 Voter Travelling Miles to use their right

2) After amendments in constitution, procedure was laid for an Independent Election Commission led by an Independent Chief Election Commissioner and Provisional Election Commissioners. If we look into the history, hardly any body can doubt or raise finger at Chief Election Commissioner, ironically he was elected unanimously by Government, Opposition and Parties sitting out side the Parliament as well. So why suddenly every one targeting him and Election Commission for their defeats in GE??. Even their guns started to  blaze towards Judiciary after their pleas of rigging were denied on many accounts and unavailability of sufficient evidence provided. May be these losing Old horses wanted a puppet GE as we witnessed in 2002 and  2008 when they were able to win and find a place in the Parliament but under this EC many Big Guns failed to reach the Parliament and close to 100 new Parliamentarian were able to win in this GE and close to 25 big families were eliminated from Electoral process which was hostage to them for decades.

3) Hectic efforts were made on part of Supreme Court of Pakistan and Election Commission Of Pakistan to get things right regarding bogus voter lists. Millions of bogus votes were eliminated and millions new voters added to the list. Computerised voter list's with voters name and picture printed on it was ensured. All the credit and applause to SC and EC of Pakistan on this historic effort and clear thinking as far as the importance of voter list was concerned.

4) Now more than 80,000 Polling Stations, with 4-6 Polling Booths in each Polling Station were established and over half a million staff recruited from different Government Departments to manage this mega activity. Only few hundred Polling Stations were declared rigged  from different quarters. Similarly European Union Observer's, American Organisation's, HRCP, Fafen ( Close to 47,000 volunteers on grounds), ten to eleven International Organisations and many local witnessed history unfolding and declared this GE one of the most transparent and unique in Pakistan history.  Just imagine the scale of Election activity and at the same time imagine the minute nature of complaints filed, you will get the whole picture, stupidity and motives of few useless creatures .

5) The Election process was very simple, hardly any room for rigging, manipulations except at local level and at places where candidate was very influential and opposing candidate was very weak, at the same time constituency was situated in a remote area. Having said all this I still feel it was very difficult task to rig the constituency completely, because in our land of pures there is hardly any party not equipped with feudal, Land Lords, Business Tycoons etc. In cities it became next to impossible to rig the Elections with Strong presence of Media as well. With changing demographics of Pakistan the Village and City distinction has been eliminated with every passing day. Finally most important point to ponder here, on every Polling Stations a Polling Agent was designated by every party. Imran Khan PTI who is complaining the most, promised the Nation that his "Tabdeli Razakar's" will be present on every Polling Station on Election Day and will thwart any efforts of rigging. But as Media reports suggest there were many Polling Stations in Lahore where they did not see any "Tabdeli Razaka'rs" leave alone the remote areas. So whether Imran Khan PTI failed to mobilise his voter's on Polling day or it was a myth that  they have "10 Million registered Members" or the Elections were very transparent??.

6) Another very false narrative regarding recounting is in the air that recounting means rigging and recounting on seats will lead to winning of candidates. Again Imran Khan PTI is very vocal about recounting and staging sit-ins in different cities for his demands. Already done in different constituencies, it hardly effected and changed the original results except few here and there where victory margin was very few hundred votes. As Election Commission Of Pakistan has already conceded to this demand and is in the process of installing a soft ware with the help of Nadra to recount in different constituencies with the help of Thumb Imprints that will settle down all the ambiguities and fog surrounding these Elections. Similarly EC took a bold stance in Karachi, where re-polling was held and PTI emerged as winner, this happened despite stiff opposition from MQM. But despite reassurances from Election Commission, threats of violent protests were continuing from Imran Khan PTI and a sit in  was staged in Islamabad. Imran Khan PTI must end these rhetorical politics, yes we know he had given the dream of a clean sweep, Naya Pakistan to his supporters and disgruntled youth but now it is his responsibility to lead this youth because PTI as a Party has achieved humongous success, if for a minute he and his party comes out of their Tsunami Phenomenon.  Lets ditch politics of hatred and sit-ins, lets leave politics of creating fake Social Media accounts, fake colons to build opinions in favour of sit-ins because people of Pakistan have clearly shown  they have become much wiser, smarter and lets not challenge their political prudence and astuteness.

                                                              D-Chowk Sit In By PTI

7) Another very interesting fact regarding this 2013 GE is that PMLN won big in Punjab, their victory margin on majority of seats was huge and on many humongous. They won comfortably and the seats they lost, the margin was very thin and minimal. So if recounting with Thumb impression happens on 25 proposed seats it might benefit PMLN and back fire on PTI big time. Imran Khan PTI giving reassurance to his followers that high turn out and elimination of bogus votes will only benefit PTI was purely an assumption on his part. Because bogus votes in recent history were purely created to target PMLN and eliminate Nawaz Sharif from electoral politics. As we all have seen, a turn out of 60% in Punjab and 11 million new votes polled mostly  favoured PMLN and PMLN was able to get big chunk of it. Turn out in KPK was reasonably good but not as good as it was in Punjab that is why we see a spilt mandate and PTI emerging as the front runner but not with absolute majority. PMLN emerging as the biggest party with 14.8 million plus votes, PTI a distant second with 7.6 million, PPP third with 6.8 million and Independents astonishing 5 million plus. PTI getting more votes in KPK and Karachi but unfortunately getting votes in Karachi didn't serve well and winning only one NA seat.

8) Finally huge responsibly on Pakistani Media, few of the anchors trying to create a false impression of a rigged Elections, raising some serious allegations on Chief Election Commissioner and Even on Judicial System of Pakistan. May be their ego was hit hard and their judgement regarding "Tsunami" got a serious beating  but this behaviour of accusations, false opinions must immediately end and yes if they have got some proofs regarding rigging, lets present them to Election Tribunals which already have started working. I be finishing my read by quoting a great leader who laid foundation of a War torn country into a Super Power,  "Abraham Lincoln", America will never be destroyed from outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves". Similar is the case with us, we a  Nuclear Pakistan need to get our house in order, get mature, have open and flexible mind. learn to tolerate and accept defeat. A democratic Pakistan will excel for sure.