Pakistan Elections 2013

[Friend]

Swat two national assebly seats won by PTI with big margin.

[Talal]

NA-1 Peshawar this just in, ANP Senior leader Bilour officially accepts defeat

This is BIG, this seat is like the KPK throne.

PTI winning on rest of peshawar seats as well.

Over all PMLN forming next government. But my word PTI kicking ass in Islamabad, Pindi and even Lahore !

[Talal]

Geo saying PTI has sweeped KPK

[Friend]

Geo saying PTI has sweeped KPK

Probably..

[Talal]

I am sooo happy by these elections all these corrupt stooges ANP MQM PPPP PML-Q all of them have been wiped out.


You heard it here ANP not getting a single seat in KPK

[Friend]

I am sooo happy by these elections all these corrupt stooges ANP MQM PPPP PML-Q all of them have been wiped out.


You heard it here ANP not getting a single seat in KPK

Pppp not yet wiped out but thanks to Allah we will not see then in the 5 years. You are right all those 4 parties extremely corrupt and hypocrite.

[Friend]

It seems this time a huge turn out.

[Shah-i-Kot]

Is Tahir Qadri in Canada or Pakistan right now? It seems he wants an army coup, but I doubt that is possible.

[Shah-i-Kot]

Pakistan Elections LIVE: Man caught near Imran's hospital, serious threat to his life, counting underway

Dailybhaskar.com | May 11, 2013, 23:04PM IST

Islamabad: Pakistanis began voting on Saturday morning in landmark polls to choose new national and provincial assemblies, setting in motion the first democratic transition of power in the country's 66-year history.

10.00 pm:
Threat to Imran Khan's life

Life of Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan's Tehreek e-Insaaf (PTI) Party is under serious threat. A suspicious looking person, imposing in Elite Force Uniform, was caught after he was seen lurking around the hospital in which Khan is undergoing treatment.

The Chief Minister of Punjab Najam Sethi said that there is a serious and credible threat to the life of PTI Chief Imran Khan.

The man could not verify his credentials and authorities have taken him into custody and he is being questioned.

9:15 pm: Parties of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan appeared to be well ahead of their rivals in Pakistan's elections, according to partial vote counts. Tehrik-e-Insaf supporters out on streets in Peshawar, celebrating.

8:45 pm: Another bomb blast in Manghopir rocks Karachi. It was a suicide bomber who injured five people.

8:20 pm: Counting begins in Pakistan Elections, Nawaz Sharif leading from Sargodha in Punjab.

7:04 pm: Karachi is being held hostage yet again: PTI

7:03 pm: Official time for voting over except three constituencies in Karachi. PML(N) and PTI have announced that they would not accept election results in Karachi after allegations of massive rigging.

5:55 pm: ECP admits that it failed to conduct free and fair and elections in Karachi.

5:54 pm: Polling time extended by one hour across the country.

5:34 pm: Nawaz Sharif casts his ballot at a polling station in Lahore.

5:30 pm: ECP gives three more hours to voters to cast their ballot in seven constituencies of Karachi.

5:25 pm: It is either Imran Khan or Nawaz Sharif who will come to power after the elections. Close contest expected: Opinion Polls

5:15 pm: 25 percent voter turnout till noon, final voting figure expected to be around 60 percent: Reports

5:11 pm: An hour left before voting closes in Lahore. Frenzied activity on streets as people rush to polling booths.

4:55 pm: Violent Clashes between supporters of Awami National Party and an independent candidate on the border town of Chaman claim four lives.

3:59 pm: Election Commission of Pakistan has warned political parties that results in Karachi and Hyderabad, where massive rigging is supposedly taking place, will be annulled if allegations are found correct.

3.25pm: Reports of the kidnapping of Asghar Abbas of Majlis-i-Wahdatul Muslimeen, a candidate for NA-253.

3.23pm: Complying with orders of Islamic assembly, or jirga, no woman turns up for voting in Lower Dir district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Woman in Lower Dir had been barred from casting their ballot on Friday.

1.19pm: Polling stopped at three polling stations of Thull due to a clash between voters of competing candidates.

1pm: Explosion near election camp in Kuchlak injures four persons.

12:36 pm: Polling suspended in Charsadda after 5 people were killed in exchange of fire between the supporters of rival independent candidates.

12.30pm: One dead in clash between two rival groups in Chaman.

12.26pm: The son of Imtiaz Shaikh, senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League – Functional (PML-F), was injured in a clash between two rival groups in Shikarpur.

12.25pm: At least one person was killed and seven injured in two different bomb explosions in Balochistan’s insurgency hit Naseerabad district.

12.22pm: At least two people were injured in a bomb blast at Hub’s Gandi stop.

12.20pm: Blast near a polling station in Mardan’s Na-10 injured five persons.

12:09 pm: Election Commission took notice of delays in commencement of polling at several constituencies. Commission has directed all provincial election commissions to ensure timely polling and to extend the polling time if needed.

11.50am: Singer-actor Ali Zafar wrote on Twitter,"Still no ballet boxes in D.H.A Karachi. Old people waiting since morning! What's going on?"(sic)

11:49 am: Reports of blast near Bannu’s Saddar police station, followed by reports of firing.

11:44 am: Reports of elections being suspended in Pakpattan’s NA-164 overthe non-registration of some owmen’s names in the voters list.


11:39 am: Rangers arrest Ali Akbar Gujjar, one of the candidates for Karachi’s PS-119 for confiscating ballot boxes.

11:16 am: Voting stopped at Girl’s college after heated exchange of words between the PPP and PML-N activists at NA 233 Mehar-KN Shah and PS 77 Mehar of Dadu district. Rangers and police called to manage the situation.

11:14 am: Polling suspended in Okara’s NA 145′s polling station number 149 after two people were killed during exchange of fire between two political groups.

10.58am: Clash at polling station injures three in Khairpur


10:52 am: Blast reported near school on Peshawar’s Charsadda road, 4 killed. (For full report click)

10:44 am: Death in the first blast near Karachi’s Quaidabad area rose to 10. According to media reports, at least 50 people were injured.


10:35 am: Reports of second blast near Karachi’s Quaidabad, 8 dead, 25 wounded

10.22am: Blast near polling station in Karachi’s Quaidabad kills four

9.56am: Women being stopped from polling in NA-24’s Kot Essa Khan area.

9:20 am: Maulana Fazlur Rehman casts his vote

9:16 am: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry casts vote in Quetta


8.40am: Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G Ebrahim were among those who exercised their right to franchise shortly after polling began at 8 am.

Footage on television showed Kayani walking into a polling station in Rawalpindi to vote.

Long queues were seen outside thousands of polling stations across the country despite fears of attacks by the Taliban, which had said that it would carry out attacks, including suicide bombings, on election day as it considers the polls part of an "infidel system" of democracy.

Over 100 people, including candidates, were killed in gun and bomb attacks by the Taliban and other militant groups during the campaign period.

Threats and attacks by the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan forced three major parties - Pakistan Peoples Party, Awami National Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement – to dramatically curtail their campaign.

More than 86 million people are registered to vote in the polls though elections in Pakistan have traditionally registered low turnouts.

Only 44 per cent of the electorate voted in the last general election in 2008.

A total of 4,670 candidates are standing for parliamentary elections while nearly 11,000 are running for the four provincial assemblies.

Parties like the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, Pakistan Peoples Party and PML-N have sought to attract many youths who will be voting for the first time.

Polling will continue till 5 pm and provisional results are expected to come in by early tomorrow.

Tens of thousands of security personnel, including 70,000 soldiers, have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order during the polls.

The PML-N led by former premier Nawaz Sharif is widely tipped to emerge the single largest party while a spirited campaign by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan helped his Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf make inroads in the most populous province of Punjab and in urban areas.

The outgoing government led by the PPP was the first one in Pakistan's history to complete its full term of five years.

In the past, governments have been ousted by the army, which has ruled Pakistan for more than half of its history.

[Friend]

In pukhtunkhwa, next govt will be made by PTI

[Talal]

Pppp not yet wiped out but thanks to Allah we will not see then in the 5 years. You are right all those 4 parties extremely corrupt and hypocrite.

Overall I am happy. PMLN has a good majority so they wont be a hunchback government, they have some really top notch technocrats on board so I expect good things from them.

And best thing of all PTI will be forming a majority government in KPK, and if they are half as good as they say they are their 5 years will be a revolution for that province inshallah.

[Talal]

Imran beat bilour by more than 50000 votes !!

[Shah-i-Kot]

According to reports (on Express tribune) PML-N and MQM have rigged votes and cast false votes also PML-N blocked some women. Hard to say what can happen, and Tahir Qadri is back. hmmmm

[Talal]

According to reports (on Express tribune) PML-N and MQM have rigged votes and cast false votes also PML-N blocked some women. Hard to say what can happen, and Tahir Qadri is back. hmmmm

There has been documented rigging in karachi thats why ECP has decided to re-poll on those stations

[Adam]

So Nawaz is the new PM huh?