Two Weeks After the Elections, Is a Government in Sight?

Roughly two weeks have passed since Pakistan’s elections, but parliament and the provincial assemblies have yet to convene, governing coalitions haven’t been finalized, and Pakistan’s largest party hasn’t chosen its prime ministerial nominee. The sluggish pace of the transition was expected, though if the status quo prevails into the weekend or next week, those […]

Judicial system has role to advance cause of justice: Justice Abbasi

ISLAMABAD: The senior most Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi Monday said that the judicial system in a country has paramount role to advance cause of justice and eradicate the evils. Inaugurating the ceremony of 35th four week pre-serving training course for Civil Judges-cum-Judicial Magistrates from NWFP and Balochistan here at […]

Pakistan: State of Emergency - A Documentary

Readers and visitors might be interested in FRONTLINE/World’s new 20-minute documentary “Pakistan: State of Emergency”, now live on this weblink.  I have mixed views about it, but would like to hear other opinions before I rant..
The story investigates Maulana Fazlullah, the young Taliban cleric waging war against the Pakistani government in the beautiful valley of Swat. […]

Give politics a chance, say civil society activists

ISLAMABAD: “Give politics a chance” was the consensus among leading representatives of civil society and political parties at a forum held in Islamabad on Wednesday where they agreed that the task ahead is to restore democratic politics as a legitimate way for Pakistan to govern itself after years of vilification and attacks on political parties […]

In love with voting, hopelessly

In Tehelka, author and columnist Kamila Shamsie on the long and tortured road to being able to vote in Pakistan, finally  
ONE OF my earliest memories dates back to Election Day, 1977, when I was four years old, and my father showed me a mark on his thumb in indelible ink and explained it was there to […]

Healing touch - the way war on terror should be fought!

There is a lot of talk going on regarding the fate of the war on terror expecially after the change of the tide in Pakistani politics. Most of these concerns are misplaced because the real partners, the legitimate ones in this war are now taking charge in Islamabad. Pakistan People’s Party the leading part in […]

Partnerless in Pakistan

By Arif Rafiq

President George W Bush rightly called Pakistan’s recent national and provincial elections “a victory for [its] people”. But, even as he uttered those words, his administration was working behind the scenes to subvert the will of Pakistan’s people by trying to dictate the composition of their next coalition government and prop up the […]

Pakistan Election Poll Rigging Videos

Take a look at these two controversial Pakistan election poll rigging videos. These videos are the reason that Pakistani Government now has a ban on YouTube.
Pakistan Election Poll Rigging Video (YouTube)

Pakistan Election Poll Rigging Video (VidPk)

See more videos on vidPK.com
MQM Rigging Polls in Karachi (GEO News)

MQM Rigging Polls in Karachi (GEO News) (Vidpk)

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Pakistan’s PTA Bans YouTube - Poll Rigging Videos

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued a memorandum to the country’s ISPs to block access to the video sharing website YouTube for allegedly featuring a blasphemous video.
According to the Pakistani “Don’t Block The Blog” there are two theories that could explain PTA’s recent move to ban YouTube: vote rigging videos showing alleged evidence of […]

Some very fine foreign articles on Pakistani elections: Thank you very much

Before the elections I kept on reminding my readers that the people of Pakistan especially the lawyers and the journalists were writing an altogether new chapter in the history of democracy. The results have shown just that and have quashed the claims that Muslim countries cannot think democratically. Unfortunately at this time not the people […]