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NA-58 Attock –2: Win of Ch Pervaiz Elahi, Thanks to Major Tahir

By revo • Feb 19th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

The only seat from where Ch. Pervaiz Elahi got elected from the only seat. The results are showing the drastic blow on the face of PML-Q, which has been outclassed by the nation in 19th General Elections 2008.
This constituency NA-58 consists of Attock area whose Nazim is Major (Retd) Tahir Sadiq, who is a very [...]



Sheikh Rahid Lost to Javed Hashmi in NA-56

By revo • Feb 18th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

In a very dramatic development, according to not-final results Javed Hashmi of PML-N has defeated Sheikh Rashid Ahmed of PML-Q. This was one of the most crunch constituency of Pakistan, and this was the area which was a life-long winning point for Sheikh Rashid.
Sheikh Rashid always won from this area on the ticket of PML-N, [...]



Polling Starts But It’s Slow

By revo • Feb 18th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

One hour has passed since the polling for Pakistan Election 2008 has started, but the voter turn out up till  now is hopeless. But that is not something to be get dejected about, as Election Day is considered normally a holiday in Pakistan, and these are winter times, people get up late, have a leisure [...]



CJP Iftikhar Chaudhary is a Third Class Man

By revo • Feb 17th, 2008 • Category: Misc

This statement could be issued by a street hawker or any illiterate person working in a coal mine about any one. But the sad and shocking thing is that this statement has come from our Generalissmo (r) Pervez Musharraf.
In an interview to Imran Khan’s Ex-wife Jemima Khan, who has come to Pakistan to report the [...]



Has Denmark Lost All Sense?

By revo • Feb 17th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Have Danish people nothing else to do? I mean what they are gaining by insulting the Muslim faith? Is this the freedom of speech? Enough ink has been spilled on the definition of freedom of speech, and sane people all over the world, regardless of their faith, believe that their are certain limits to the [...]



Bomb Blast Outside Election Office in Parachinar

By revo • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Pakistanis are counting the seconds now as the election campaign is drawing near, and it will be closed at 12:00 pm tonight. In Parachinar, a suicide bomb blast has occured outside the election office of an independent office. The election office is in the Eidgah market, and the independent candidate Riaz Hussain Shah was also [...]



Malik Qayyum & Match Fixing

By revo • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics, Worth A Second Look

The role of Attorney General of Pakistan Malik Qayyum in reference against Chief Justice of Pakistan needs no words. He has been in the lime light after exposure of his alleged audio conversation in which he mentioned that the upcoming elections will be rigged. I shall not go into detail story as many of my [...]



End to Elections Campaign means the start of Rigging?

By revo • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Right after one day the elections campaign will have an end for the next five years (I hope so). The parties and independent candidates will have made their run of elections campaign complete. February 18th is the judgment day by the nation and for the candidates and the political parties.
Yesterday talking to media, the disturbance [...]



Election 2008 in Balochistan

By revo • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

The matter of Balochistan is different from rest of the country as far as the Election 2008 are concerned. Balochistan’s nationalists are angry, and it’s true that lots of excesses has been done to Baloch people, and they want relief.
Baloch nationals are boycotting the elections, and they are vehemently expressing it. It’s the need of [...]



Pakistan Election 2008 : Road To Democracy

By revo • Feb 13th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

It is a universal truth that the path to democracy begins with the free and fair elections. There is no question about the fact that if the elections are rigged, than the sham democracy is more injurious than a dictatorial regime.
Pre-poll rigging, rigging during the polling, results manipulations and other kinds of misdeeds in the [...]