The Pakistani Spectator

PPP = Pakistan peoples party (led until recently by the late Benazir Bhutto)
PML-N = Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz Group (the original party that still follows Nawaz sharif.)
PML-Q = Pakistan Muslim League - Qaid Group (the splinterd shard that still follows Musharraf.)
ANP = Awami National Party (Led by Asfandyar Wali)
MQM = Muttahida Qomi Party (Led [...]

This is very crucial to know as what the chiefs of main political parties are saying, especially those who are not so much happy with Musharraf and his toadies, PML-Q.
Muslim League Nawaz’s chief Mian Nawaz Sharif says that he thinks that the polling during the day was ok, though his workers were targeted and one [...]

Rigging is not done during the polling. Simply because a huge numbers of voters remain present at the polling stations, people remained charged up there the whole day. Media personal also keep their spot light on the voters and the polling process. Police, rangers and other security officials also remain vigilant during the [...]

Electoral Procedure

For the conduct of elections to the National and Provincial Assemblies, the Election Commission appoints a District Returning Officer for each District and a Returning Officer for each constituency, who are drawn from amongst the officers of the Judiciary, the Federal/Provincial Government and Local Authorities. Returning Officers are [...]

Now as the polling has entered in its final stages, and people have express their will over teh ballot people, the question is that will this election provide us with a leader who would shepherd us into a brave new era of true democracy where we would have a working free judiciary and [...]

Is our fate written on
just a piece of paper
is it as fragile
as a small tissue paper?
Why is this such a fact?
if people don’t come out
we won’t become fat?
Why people from far far away
sit and dictate us ?
when they can’t even defend their borders
their children come to classes
to shoot down students
still ‘terrorist’
they call us?
why can’t we [...]

Election Frenzy is touching the skies and world is watching in tense silence. We are yet to see as the months of uncertainty is turns into chaos or will it turn into hope, promise and assurance.
If one party which is really recoiling and about to burst at the seams is the King’s party, which goes [...]

Some days ago, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported to the alarm of many that Musharraf has promised free and fair elections and has warned parties not to protest if they lose. “I assure you that the elections will be fair, free and transparent and peaceful,” he said at a seminar in Islamabad, in [...]

Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, the former chief minister of Punjab, President of PML-Q and General Musharraf’s favorite candidate for prime minister, is very optimistic than even most mainstream leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q. He polled is vote in Gujrat and told media bombastically, though touch apprehensive, that he expected the party to win “100-plus [...]

Polling is underway for the general elections in Pakistan, and the whole world has set its eyes upon this election, as these elections are not only crucial for the Pakistani nation, but for the whole region, which directly affects the world.
The voter turnout which was very dismal in the morning is getting better [...]