Asif Ali Zardari elected new President of Pakistan
IISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari was elected as the next President of Pakistan after securing majority of votes in the presidential elections held here on Saturday.
Asif Ali Zardari is Pakistan’s 11th President since 1956, when the country became a republic, excluding acting presidents.
According to the […]

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Source: Tehran Times
ISLAMABAD (The News) — Veteran Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani, who has pulled away from the electronic media glare, is going to carry the day by becoming the nominee of the party for the prime minister, informed PPP and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leaders say.
“PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari […]

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Source: The Scotsman
By Jane Perlez in Islamabad
ASIF Ali Zardari, the widower of the murdered opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, sits at the pinnacle of Pakistani politics. It is a startling comeback for a man who, though never convicted in Pakistan, spent 11 years in jail on corruption and murder charges as one of the country’s most […]

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Source: Reuters
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan’s army chief called for harmony on Thursday as a coalition opposed to President Pervez Musharraf prepared to form a government that could force him from power.
Recent opinion polls showed the vast majority of people would like U.S. ally Musharraf, who came to power as a general in a […]

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Here are the videos and they work even after YouTube was banned by MQM! (Open this post to view the video)

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Source: Sify News
Pakistan has had a second free and fair election in its history. The first one was in December 1970. That resulted in East Pakistan voting entirely for the Awami League and West Pakistan for a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) majority without a single seat being gained by the Awami League. After the genocide, […]

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Source: The Age
THIS week’s election leaves President Pervez Musharraf at his most vulnerable since seizing power in a 1999 coup, but continuing returns and haggling over Pakistan’s new government showed his opponents are likely to fall short of the numbers needed to impeach him.
The Pakistan People’s Party, which won the most seats, said it would […]

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The national and four provincial elections held in Pakistan on 18th February 2008 are truly a ‘victory for Democracy’ as stated by the official US sources.
The atmosphere in Pakistan due to President Musharraf’s determined fight against terrorism and extremism and the political opposition which had not been there for the first seven years of his […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
By Erik de Bruyn
Erik de Bruyn, leader of the left wing of the Flemish Socialist Party in Belgium has been invited by the PPP to monitor the elections in Pakistan. In particular he is monitoring the elections in the industrial belt of Karachi (NA 257) where the PPP candidate Riaz Lund is […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — US Senator John Kerry, in Pakistan as part of a team to observe parliamentary elections, said Tuesday the vote “meets the basic threshold of credibility and legitimacy.”
Kerry, a former US presidential candidate, appeared at a press conference with Senators Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel.
The trio monitored Pakistan’s crucial vote held Monday. […]

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Source: The Wall Street Journal
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Tens of thousands of Pakistani civilians have signed up as election monitors, fostering hope that Monday’s national vote will end a history of rigged elections and restore stability to this jittery, nuclear-armed nation.
Ambreen Saba Khan is one of them. The 27-year-old teacher has been patrolling this army garrison […]

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KARACHI, Feb 7: With the country due to go to the polls on Feb 18, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is eyeing with some confidence 18 national assembly seats out of the total 20 available in Karachi, as compared to the 12 national assembly seats the party bagged in the 2002 elections. Nevertheless, the party […]

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by Jasmine Rafique
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) – — Two suspects arrested last week confessed to a Pakistani judge Wednesday that they helped arm the suicide bomber blamed for assassinating Benazir Bhutto, an Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN.

Benazir Bhutto was killed shortly after this photo was taken on December 27.

The two men — identified as Hasnain […]

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Source: Geo News
RAWALPINDI: The two accused in the Benazir Bhutto murder case have confessed committing the crime in the judicial court here on Wednesday.
Arrested recently from different areas of Rawalpindi, the suspects, Hasnain Gul and Rafaqat were produced before a Rawalpindi magestrate today
According to sources, both the accused recorded their confessional statements before […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — A suicide car bomber killed an election candidate and nine other people in northwest Pakistan on Monday, fuelling fears about the increasingly bloody campaign for key national polls in a week’s time.
The blast highlighted the dangers of campaigning in the troubled Islamic republic, with candidates keeping a low profile since the […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
This writeup was posted on the People’s Resistance network, this might be more of a general report but quite literally the upcoming elections in Pakistan have all the signs to be fully rigged. Pakistan fails on each and every condition mentioned here
From Abuja to Islamabad, autocratic regimes have become adept at manipulating “free […]

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Source: AFP
NAUDERO, Pakistan (AFP) — The party of slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will take part in parliamentary elections on January 8, a party official told AFP on Sunday.
Asked if the Pakistan People’s Party would participate in the vote, the official, a member of the party’s central executive committee who could not be named, […]

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 Source: Rise of Pakistan

Although the whole Govt. machinery is taking care of the cycle but it is always good to look after for their own “mess”.

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The top three political parties of Pakistan have released the summaries of their election agenda’s.
Five E’s of the PPP:

Employment
Education
Energy
Environment
Equality

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Source: Al Jazeera
The election of Pervez Musharraf as Pakistan’s president has been confirmed by the country’s election commission following a high court ruling.
The commission on Saturday ratified the election of Musharraf for a second five-year term, clearing the way for the general to become a civilian leader, an offical said.

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