Nawaz Sharif in Power Again

The Pakistan Muslim League(N) President, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, has been elected as the 27th Prime Minister of Pakistan in the most recent development in Pakistan's political history. He is the first ever Pakistani to get elected as Prime Minister for the third time.

Born on 25th December 1949, Nawaz Sharif bagged 244 votes against his opponents, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Makhdoom Amin Fahim of Pakistan People's Party, who repsectively got 31 and 42 votes.

Newly elected PM Nawaz Sharif taking oath from President Zardari

Nawaz Sharif held the Prime Minister's office 13 years and 8 months ago, when his government was dissolved by the then Chief-of-Army-Staff. General Pervez Musharraf on 12th October 1999. After that, he faced a seven-year-long exile in Saudi Arabia and then returned to Pakistan in November 2007.

His party achieved majority in the 11th May General Elections, the nation amid hopes and promises made by Nawaz Sharif that he will steer the country out of crisis. The newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif in his first speech from the National Assembly, before taking oath of the office, called for an end to drone attacks, saying "the daily business of drones must come to an end". He also said that other countries must respect the sovereignty of Pakistan and should also address the concerns of the country.

Accepting the challenges being faced by the country, Nawaz Sharif said his government had concrete plans and would not tolerate any corruption. “There will be swift accountability and cronyism will not be tolerated.” On the issue of the power crisis, he remarked that his political party had some good plans to deal with the power outages and the results would become apparent soon.

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MQM - A Revival

Okay, so we hear Altaf Hussain, founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement  (aka MQM), announce Operation Cleanup against the black sheep present in his political party.

Altaf Hussain, residing presently in London, leads MQM, a Pakistani political party, its roots being the strongest in Karachi.

After the 11th May National Elections in Pakistan, MQM was blamed for rigging and cheating by Imran Khan's  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf's leader, Arif Alvi, in NA-250. Protests were held in this regard too by the PTI supporters in Karachi. Both MQM and PTI leaders held press conferences claiming the other side to be guilty. After that, Altaf Hussain used harsh words against PTI in a live telephonic conference from London.

After much havoc created by both sides, MQM founder Altaf Hussain warned all members of the party against serious actions to be taken against anyone found involved in illegal activities. He then dissolved the Raabta Committee, saying that it's now time to clean MQM of all corrupt entities.

Yesterday, he has announced a new Raabta Committee, in which Haider Abbas Rizvi, Aamir Khan, Nasreen Jaleel, Dr. Sagheer Ahmad, Kanwar Naveed, Waasay Jaleel, Mustafa Azizabadi, Yousuf Shahwani and some others are included. Saleem Shehzad, Raza Haroon and Asif Siddiqui, who were the members of the old Raabta Committee, are not included this time. Further, Anees Ahmad Advocate is restricted to get involved in any political activities due to serious indiscipline from his side. Memberships of some MQM'ers have also been cancelled.

Furthermore, Altaf Hussain has dissuaded all his followers to take care of their personal reputation as well as of their political party, alarming them that serious steps will be taken whenever needed against such members.

Hope that this recent revival does improve the image of MQM, who's a major stakeholder in the political grounds of Karachi.

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Pakistan General Elections '13 Finally Ends

Elections make a great contribution to democratic governance. It enables the people to cast their votes to elect representatives to hold them accountable to their office because a democratic government must be conducted through representatives. Election has also become a major factor in stabilization and democratization of emerging democracies and post-conflict countries. The establishment of an independent and well-functioning Election Commission is a crucial element for the success.

Election 2013

Election 2013 was the great hope for the Pakistani nation to elect the person according to their choice and cast the vote to the person whom they think can lift the country towards success and development and take them out of all the problems the nation had gone through till now.

Election 2013 was a great achievement because the previous government of Pakistan Peoples Party completed their five years of rule successfully. Elections were supposed to be held on 11^th May 2013. Whole nation had stood up with an enthusiasm to bring a leader who might give them a sigh of relaxation. All political parties had become active and started their election campaign all over the Pakistan to gain popular support. Big banners, flags and pamphlets were seen everywhere in the country.

From all areas of Pakistan, different individual candidates and candidates from all political parties participated in elections as candidates for National and Provincial assemblies. In Punjab, PMLN and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf were in the ground of battleship to run their campaign freely. However, Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar were declared as the red zone due to security reasons. PPP, MQM and ANP were being threatened from the very first day after the abolishment of the previous government. Terrorist alarmed them to stay out of the elections and do not run any election campaign anywhere otherwise they would be blasted by bomb. Several bombs were blasted on offices and Jalsas of MQM, ANP and PPP by terrorists.

For the National Assembly, PMLN, PTI, MQM, Jamat e Islami and PPP were the strong political parties. PTI and PMLN had strong candidates for Punjab Provincial Assembly. MQM, PPP and PMLF were having strong candidates for Sindh Assembly however PTI, JUI Fand Jamat e Islami were strong in KPK Assembly and BNP, PMLN were strong from Balochistan Assembly.

Leader of Pakistan Politics

After all, voting took place on 11^th May 2013. Due to some reasons, polling did not take place in some polling stations. Few incidents of rigging were also reported in some areas however whole electing process took place successfully and finally the results got announced on the next day. PMLN got a high number of seats in National Assembly leading with more than 120 seats. However, PTI won the elections on the National Assembly on around 30 seats and PPP got about 35 seats. MQM was successful to secure 18 National Assembly seats. PTI chairman, Imran Khan secured 3 National Assembly seats.

On Provincial basis, PMLN got majority in Punjab with PTI on the second position. In KPK PTI got lead on provincial seats and JUI F got second highest. In Sindh, PPP got the high number of seat in provincial assembly and MQM got the second highest majority in provincial assembly. In Balochistan, PMLN got the majority.

During the whole electoral process, NA 250 had become a controversial constituency. On the day of election polling failed to start on 43 polling stations of NA 250. However PTI protest for polling in these 43 polling stations and MQM was in the favor for repolling in the whole constituency. Several protests are done by MQM and Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf. Election Commission denied the application of MQM for repolling in all polling stations of NA 250 and MQM boycott elections from NA 250. And on 19^th May, Dr Arif Alvi a candidate of PTI has won from NA 250.

PMLN Cheif Nawaz Sharif

Now the result is showing that the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) is going to establish the democratic government in Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif will take the charge of Prime Minister of Pakistan for the third time. Now the whole Pakistani nation is looking towards the upcoming government to solve all the critical and serious problems country has been facing like terrorism, inflation, law and order issues, electricity shortfall and others social and economic problems. Also the people are full of hope that there elected representatives will make Pakistan a democratic and a developed country.

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