Human Rights Post
Nadeem Ahmed Advocate
This is a question that everyone knows the answer to and they don’t express it openly. Before discussing this question further, let’s look at the pages of history some time ago and it is known that Imran Khan When he assumed power in 2018, he did 3 big assignments, one of which was amendments in the NAB law so that the scope of accountability is more strict against real looters and the other big thing was the decision to give the right to vote to overseas Pakistanis because in fact, they are the people who play a key role in meeting the economic needs in Pakistan and when their confidence in their country is restored, they will put their savings in Pakistani banks as much as possible,in the result of foreign exchange in the country will come to Pakistan in dollars and other currencies, which will outcome in stability in the Pakistani economy. The decision by Imran Khan was given a warm welcome in abroad and tribute by the resident Pakistanis, after which another real change was passed by the bill to conduct transparent elections in Pakistan through Electronic Machines (EVM) which was passed by an overwhelming majority.Under this system, Pakistan would also join the ranks of developed countries where elections are conducted in a transparent manner without question marks and people get a chance to choose their representatives according to their opinion without any interference or manipulation. Not only the costs are reduced, but also the right of people to vote is secured by the coating and workmanship of human hands.These three bills were a wake-up call for the 75-year-old “status quo” in Pakistan, as the elections have always been characterized by lack of transparency and rigging, and it has also been seen that rigging has been won. If a case has been filed against the failed candidate in other appellate courts after the Election Tribunal, then, due to the judicial system of Pakistan, which is number 139 in efficiency, the decision is not taken even when the term of the Assembly is completed. Yes, and if you die by your own death -By the way! In 2021, Imran Khan’s government was ousted in a planned plan and for the first time in Pakistan’s history, the Prime Minister was deposed in a no-confidence motion and the allies took over the government. They united against one person and Shahbaz Sharif was elected as such mixture pot.This government had not even taken a breath to assume power when it suddenly disposed of these three bills – NAB laws were amended to such an extent that the teeth of this watchdog of accountability were pulled out. Only politicians and corrupt people raised and political elites and bureaucrats involved in corruption of trillions of rupees ended their cases -It was blessing on then Chief Justice Atta Bandial that he declared these amendments against the law and ordered to reopen the cases – but still these cases have not been fully opened and the Pakistani bureaucracy has not been able to open its doors to its political masters by disappearing these records, NAB is honorably acquitting them from the Courts, an example of which is the overnight acquittal of the Sharif family, in which most of them were given a clean chit due to the unavailability of records or lack of evidence.In the same way, by taking away their right to vote from overseas Pakistanis, not only the international laws were violated, but the political and constitutional rights of these Pakistanis were terminated and the reason for this was that the overwhelming majority of Pakistanis abroad supported Imran Khan was in favor. The Pakistani “status quo” elites knew that their votes could play a decisive role in any election – the Allies at this stage sought the support of overseas Pakistanis rather than supporting a sinking economy, they pushed the nation deeper into debt by getting loans from IMF at huge interest rates and gegged mouth terms and left with a hand wringing after causing the worst inflation and destruction in 16 months.This coalition government did the last nail in the coffin i.e. the third act by disposing of the law to conduct elections through electronic voting machines because everyone knew that these machines identify the voter through fingerprints i.e. bio-metrics and thus the elections are transparent. The political elite of Pakistan and the civil and military bureaucracy, which is also known as the establishment, are not acceptable in any way, so by abolishing this bill, the centuries-old electoral system was imposed on the nation, in which the rule of the buffalo is governed by whose stick-It is also worth mentioning here that the PTI had approached the Supreme Court against these three bills in which the Chief Justice and other judges of the bench had raised a legal question as to how the coalition government could pass such bills. While PTI members are not present in the assembly, it should be noted that after the coalition government came, Imran Khan boycotted the parliament with his party and later he also resigned. In the absence of a large number of the assembly, it can pass such important bills and impose them on the nation – but in Pakistan, But everything is possible in Pakistan by hook and crook.The coalition government, which came into power under the Compromise Agreement, did these three things and received its full price in the election 2024, and now the results of the elections held on February 8, 2024 have not been fully presented five days later. During these five days, the media channels witnessed how a winning candidate was defeated overnight and a losing candidate was declared winner.The United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union also expressed their displeasure and concern over this open rigging and alleged manipulation to prevent the results and demanded that the people’s mandate be respected and not by internal conspiracies to favor their own people, should be imposed on the nation-As the topic of our program is “Why and how votes are stolen in Pakistan”, then the partial answer to the first part of this question may have been understood in the form of the above introduction-In fact, the election,in the democracy is the right of the people to vote in which they choose their leaders so that they can go to the assembly and represent their rights, have development work in their areas, provide them with basic facilities,development of their areas and other utility bills should be taken according to their budget and income, the people who give the tax to the government, then their elected representatives can build their constituencies through this tax and be able to take the path of development – that is why it has been named democracy, that is, the decision of the people, for the people, by the people -But it is a pity that public opinion has never been respected in the history of Pakistan, be it the election of the time of Mother Nation Fatima Jinnah or the recent election.Benazir Bhutto gave a historical name to such an election i.e. “engineered” election, what did the people want and what did they get? An excellent post on social media gives a true picture of this, stating thatThe test match of General Election 2024 has entered the fifth day.Day 1: PTI 179/N-League 35Day 2: PTI 136 / PML-N 57Day 3: PTI 96/N-League 78Day 4: PTI 93/N-League 79And even after five days, the Election Commission failed to release the official and final results, which is a proof of the failure of this institution.Now we come to how the election results are changed, the procedure is that when the voting phase is completed in all the polling stations, a Form 45 is prepared in the presence of the polling agents belonging to all the political parties and candidates. In which there is the number of votes cast in each polling station i.e. how many votes were cast for which candidate – the representative of the election signs these forms and hands over the copies to the polling agents of all the candidates. -After that, these votes are sealed and sent to the RO office, where after the Election Commission staff processes Form 46 and officially announces the name of the winning candidate under Form 47. – This is the stage where all the tampering takes place to actually show the desired results, bu putting error in the correct votes, reject how many votes and turn the winning candidate’s win into a loss. It’s all in their hands-The losing candidate now has the option to challenge the decision in the Election Tribunal in the light of the results of Form 45 and the aggrieved party can appeal to the High Court against the decision of the Election Tribunal. And later the way of appeal is open to the Supreme Court and obviously the decision of the Supreme Court is final-The Lahore Court dismissed 18 constitutional petitions filed directly on the same grounds and directed the victims to approach the Election Tribunal – including the petition of a well-known lawyer, Salman Raja.The position of Pakistan’s judicial system is that these appeals continue for years until the assembly completes its term. In the past, these appeals against several members of the National Assembly, including Shazia Murri, are still going on and these people have once again imposed themselves on the nation after indulging the perks and privileges of Assembly.The major powers of the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, including the international media, have expressed their concern and displeasure over this botched election in Pakistan, on which a separate report will be presented.The most unique thing witnessed in the recent elections is actually more and more voters coming out to cast their votes and interestingly, there is a large number of women whose votes have created a stir in the ruling circles. It has been done and it has been accepted by the United States, Great Britain and the European Union. What will be the future of these elections will be revealed with time, but now the growing consciousness of the Pakistani nation has indicated that if the powerful circles continue to manipulate the elections and win their favorite candidates and parties in the same engineered way, contrary to the wishes of the people, it is not unlikely that the same people will reach their necks by the next election.These incidents are a perfect example to prove that these elections were engineered when in the 2013 election, Nawaz Sharif announced his victory in his speech only 3 hours after the election, on which Imran Khan always shouted that how did it come to know within three hours that they had won and now in the recent election when PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami had won the majority of seats in Sindh in the light of huge number of votes and form 45, then at 9 o’clock in the night the Muttahida Qaumi Movement announced its victory in 18 seats and put everyone in a trance and people ignored it as a dream of a madman.But the declaration of 17 seats by MQM-Pakistan after 2 days proved that the prevailing procedure of election results in Pakistan was adopted and by giving the news to their favorite candidates in advance, they were gifted with their slavery and subjugation.It is worth noting here that FAFEN, an organization that monitors elections in Pakistan, i.e. Fair and Free Election Network, has opened the eyes of the whole world, including Pakistan, by presenting its shocking report – according to FAFEN’s report, 16 lakhs across the country votes were rejected, more than 200,000 votes were rejected in Multan alone. These votes were mostly rejected in the constituencies where the candidates of PP and Noon won.According to FAFEN, the number of rejected votes in the recent election is more than 1.6 million and the total number of registered votes in Pakistan is around 12.8 million, of which the votes polled in this election are around 6 million. Of these, 16 lakh votes have been rejected and a large number of them have been rejected from 25 constituencies and 23 of the 25 constituencies are in Punjab and 14 of them are for PML-N candidates. It has been successful and 5 seats belong to People’s PartyAnd out of these 5 seats, 2 seats belong to father and son i.e. a former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and his son who won from PTI supported Mehrabano Qureshi and the number of rejected votes of Mehrabano Qureshi is more than 16 thousand. And Yusuf Raza Gilani who won his seat won by a very small margin and the number of rejected votes in his constituency is more than 12 thousand-This report by FAFEN presents the testimony of our analysis of the journey of votes above i.e. from the polling station to the RO office and how the election results are changed.Why and how votes are stolen in PakistanNadeem Ahmed AdvocateThis is a question that everyone knows the answer to and they don’t express it openly. Before discussing this question further, let’s look at the pages of history some time ago and it is known that Imran Khan When he assumed power in 2018, he did 3 big assignments, one of which was amendments in the NAB law so that the scope of accountability is more strict against real looters and the other big thing was the decision to give the right to vote to overseas Pakistanis because in fact, they are the people who play a key role in meeting the economic needs in Pakistan and when their confidence in their country is restored, they will put their savings in Pakistani banks as much as possible,in the result of foreign exchange in the country will come to Pakistan in dollars and other currencies, which will outcome in stability in the Pakistani economy. The decision by Imran Khan was given a warm welcome in abroad and tribute by the resident Pakistanis, after which another real change was passed by the bill to conduct transparent elections in Pakistan through Electronic Machines (EVM) which was passed by an overwhelming majority.Under this system, Pakistan would also join the ranks of developed countries where elections are conducted in a transparent manner without question marks and people get a chance to choose their representatives according to their opinion without any interference or manipulation. Not only the costs are reduced, but also the right of people to vote is secured by the coating and workmanship of human hands.These three bills were a wake-up call for the 75-year-old “status quo” in Pakistan, as the elections have always been characterized by lack of transparency and rigging, and it has also been seen that rigging has been won. If a case has been filed against the failed candidate in other appellate courts after the Election Tribunal, then, due to the judicial system of Pakistan, which is number 139 in efficiency, the decision is not taken even when the term of the Assembly is completed. Yes, and if you die by your own death -By the way! In 2021, Imran Khan’s government was ousted in a planned plan and for the first time in Pakistan’s history, the Prime Minister was deposed in a no-confidence motion and the allies took over the government. They united against one person and Shahbaz Sharif was elected as such mixture pot.This government had not even taken a breath to assume power when it suddenly disposed of these three bills – NAB laws were amended to such an extent that the teeth of this watchdog of accountability were pulled out. Only politicians and corrupt people raised and political elites and bureaucrats involved in corruption of trillions of rupees ended their cases -It was blessing on then Chief Justice Atta Bandial that he declared these amendments against the law and ordered to reopen the cases – but still these cases have not been fully opened and the Pakistani bureaucracy has not been able to open its doors to its political masters by disappearing these records, NAB is honorably acquitting them from the Courts, an example of which is the overnight acquittal of the Sharif family, in which most of them were given a clean chit due to the unavailability of records or lack of evidence.In the same way, by taking away their right to vote from overseas Pakistanis, not only the international laws were violated, but the political and constitutional rights of these Pakistanis were terminated and the reason for this was that the overwhelming majority of Pakistanis abroad supported Imran Khan was in favor. The Pakistani “status quo” elites knew that their votes could play a decisive role in any election – the Allies at this stage sought the support of overseas Pakistanis rather than supporting a sinking economy, they pushed the nation deeper into debt by getting loans from IMF at huge interest rates and gegged mouth terms and left with a hand wringing after causing the worst inflation and destruction in 16 months.This coalition government did the last nail in the coffin i.e. the third act by disposing of the law to conduct elections through electronic voting machines because everyone knew that these machines identify the voter through fingerprints i.e. bio-metrics and thus the elections are transparent. The political elite of Pakistan and the civil and military bureaucracy, which is also known as the establishment, are not acceptable in any way, so by abolishing this bill, the centuries-old electoral system was imposed on the nation, in which the rule of the buffalo is governed by whose stick-It is also worth mentioning here that the PTI had approached the Supreme Court against these three bills in which the Chief Justice and other judges of the bench had raised a legal question as to how the coalition government could pass such bills. While PTI members are not present in the assembly, it should be noted that after the coalition government came, Imran Khan boycotted the parliament with his party and later he also resigned. In the absence of a large number of the assembly, it can pass such important bills and impose them on the nation – but in Pakistan, But everything is possible in Pakistan by hook and crook.The coalition government, which came into power under the Compromise Agreement, did these three things and received its full price in the election 2024, and now the results of the elections held on February 8, 2024 have not been fully presented five days later. During these five days, the media channels witnessed how a winning candidate was defeated overnight and a losing candidate was declared winner.The United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union also expressed their displeasure and concern over this open rigging and alleged manipulation to prevent the results and demanded that the people’s mandate be respected and not by internal conspiracies to favor their own people, should be imposed on the nation-As the topic of our program is “Why and how votes are stolen in Pakistan”, then the partial answer to the first part of this question may have been understood in the form of the above introduction-In fact, the election,in the democracy is the right of the people to vote in which they choose their leaders so that they can go to the assembly and represent their rights, have development work in their areas, provide them with basic facilities,development of their areas and other utility bills should be taken according to their budget and income, the people who give the tax to the government, then their elected representatives can build their constituencies through this tax and be able to take the path of development – that is why it has been named democracy, that is, the decision of the people, for the people, by the people -But it is a pity that public opinion has never been respected in the history of Pakistan, be it the election of the time of Mother Nation Fatima Jinnah or the recent election.Benazir Bhutto gave a historical name to such an election i.e. “engineered” election, what did the people want and what did they get? An excellent post on social media gives a true picture of this, stating thatThe test match of General Election 2024 has entered the fifth day.Day 1: PTI 179/N-League 35Day 2: PTI 136 / PML-N 57Day 3: PTI 96/N-League 78Day 4: PTI 93/N-League 79And even after five days, the Election Commission failed to release the official and final results, which is a proof of the failure of this institution.Now we come to how the election results are changed, the procedure is that when the voting phase is completed in all the polling stations, a Form 45 is prepared in the presence of the polling agents belonging to all the political parties and candidates. In which there is the number of votes cast in each polling station i.e. how many votes were cast for which candidate – the representative of the election signs these forms and hands over the copies to the polling agents of all the candidates. -After that, these votes are sealed and sent to the RO office, where after the Election Commission staff processes Form 46 and officially announces the name of the winning candidate under Form 47. – This is the stage where all the tampering takes place to actually show the desired results, bu putting error in the correct votes, reject how many votes and turn the winning candidate’s win into a loss. It’s all in their hands-The losing candidate now has the option to challenge the decision in the Election Tribunal in the light of the results of Form 45 and the aggrieved party can appeal to the High Court against the decision of the Election Tribunal. And later the way of appeal is open to the Supreme Court and obviously the decision of the Supreme Court is final-The Lahore Court dismissed 18 constitutional petitions filed directly on the same grounds and directed the victims to approach the Election Tribunal – including the petition of a well-known lawyer, Salman Raja.The position of Pakistan’s judicial system is that these appeals continue for years until the assembly completes its term. In the past, these appeals against several members of the National Assembly, including Shazia Murri, are still going on and these people have once again imposed themselves on the nation after indulging the perks and privileges of Assembly.The major powers of the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, including the international media, have expressed their concern and displeasure over this botched election in Pakistan, on which a separate report will be presented.The most unique thing witnessed in the recent elections is actually more and more voters coming out to cast their votes and interestingly, there is a large number of women whose votes have created a stir in the ruling circles. It has been done and it has been accepted by the United States, Great Britain and the European Union. What will be the future of these elections will be revealed with time, but now the growing consciousness of the Pakistani nation has indicated that if the powerful circles continue to manipulate the elections and win their favorite candidates and parties in the same engineered way, contrary to the wishes of the people, it is not unlikely that the same people will reach their necks by the next election.These incidents are a perfect example to prove that these elections were engineered when in the 2013 election, Nawaz Sharif announced his victory in his speech only 3 hours after the election, on which Imran Khan always shouted that how did it come to know within three hours that they had won and now in the recent election when PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami had won the majority of seats in Sindh in the light of huge number of votes and form 45, then at 9 o’clock in the night the Muttahida Qaumi Movement announced its victory in 18 seats and put everyone in a trance and people ignored it as a dream of a madman.But the declaration of 17 seats by MQM-Pakistan after 2 days proved that the prevailing procedure of election results in Pakistan was adopted and by giving the news to their favorite candidates in advance, they were gifted with their slavery and subjugation.It is worth noting here that FAFEN, an organization that monitors elections in Pakistan, i.e. Fair and Free Election Network, has opened the eyes of the whole world, including Pakistan, by presenting its shocking report – according to FAFEN’s report, 16 lakhs across the country votes were rejected, more than 200,000 votes were rejected in Multan alone. These votes were mostly rejected in the constituencies where the candidates of PP and Noon won.According to FAFEN, the number of rejected votes in the recent election is more than 1.6 million and the total number of registered votes in Pakistan is around 12.8 million, of which the votes polled in this election are around 6 million. Of these, 16 lakh votes have been rejected and a large number of them have been rejected from 25 constituencies and 23 of the 25 constituencies are in Punjab and 14 of them are for PML-N candidates. It has been successful and 5 seats belong to People’s PartyAnd out of these 5 seats, 2 seats belong to father and son i.e. a former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and his son who won from PTI supported Mehrabano Qureshi and the number of rejected votes of Mehrabano Qureshi is more than 16 thousand. And Yusuf Raza Gilani who won his seat won by a very small margin and the number of rejected votes in his constituency is more than 12 thousand-This report by FAFEN presents the testimony of our analysis of the journey of votes above i.e. from the polling station to the RO office and how the election results are changed.Why and how votes are stolen in PakistanNadeem Ahmed AdvocateThis is a question that everyone knows the answer to and they don’t express it openly. Before discussing this question further, let’s look at the pages of history some time ago and it is known that Imran Khan When he assumed power in 2018, he did 3 big assignments, one of which was amendments in the NAB law so that the scope of accountability is more strict against real looters and the other big thing was the decision to give the right to vote to overseas Pakistanis because in fact, they are the people who play a key role in meeting the economic needs in Pakistan and when their confidence in their country is restored, they will put their savings in Pakistani banks as much as possible,in the result of foreign exchange in the country will come to Pakistan in dollars and other currencies, which will outcome in stability in the Pakistani economy. The decision by Imran Khan was given a warm welcome in abroad and tribute by the resident Pakistanis, after which another real change was passed by the bill to conduct transparent elections in Pakistan through Electronic Machines (EVM) which was passed by an overwhelming majority.Under this system, Pakistan would also join the ranks of developed countries where elections are conducted in a transparent manner without question marks and people get a chance to choose their representatives according to their opinion without any interference or manipulation. Not only the costs are reduced, but also the right of people to vote is secured by the coating and workmanship of human hands.These three bills were a wake-up call for the 75-year-old “status quo” in Pakistan, as the elections have always been characterized by lack of transparency and rigging, and it has also been seen that rigging has been won. If a case has been filed against the failed candidate in other appellate courts after the Election Tribunal, then, due to the judicial system of Pakistan, which is number 139 in efficiency, the decision is not taken even when the term of the Assembly is completed. Yes, and if you die by your own death -By the way! In 2021, Imran Khan’s government was ousted in a planned plan and for the first time in Pakistan’s history, the Prime Minister was deposed in a no-confidence motion and the allies took over the government. They united against one person and Shahbaz Sharif was elected as such mixture pot.This government had not even taken a breath to assume power when it suddenly disposed of these three bills – NAB laws were amended to such an extent that the teeth of this watchdog of accountability were pulled out. Only politicians and corrupt people raised and political elites and bureaucrats involved in corruption of trillions of rupees ended their cases -It was blessing on then Chief Justice Atta Bandial that he declared these amendments against the law and ordered to reopen the cases – but still these cases have not been fully opened and the Pakistani bureaucracy has not been able to open its doors to its political masters by disappearing these records, NAB is honorably acquitting them from the Courts, an example of which is the overnight acquittal of the Sharif family, in which most of them were given a clean chit due to the unavailability of records or lack of evidence.In the same way, by taking away their right to vote from overseas Pakistanis, not only the international laws were violated, but the political and constitutional rights of these Pakistanis were terminated and the reason for this was that the overwhelming majority of Pakistanis abroad supported Imran Khan was in favor. The Pakistani “status quo” elites knew that their votes could play a decisive role in any election – the Allies at this stage sought the support of overseas Pakistanis rather than supporting a sinking economy, they pushed the nation deeper into debt by getting loans from IMF at huge interest rates and gegged mouth terms and left with a hand wringing after causing the worst inflation and destruction in 16 months.This coalition government did the last nail in the coffin i.e. the third act by disposing of the law to conduct elections through electronic voting machines because everyone knew that these machines identify the voter through fingerprints i.e. bio-metrics and thus the elections are transparent. The political elite of Pakistan and the civil and military bureaucracy, which is also known as the establishment, are not acceptable in any way, so by abolishing this bill, the centuries-old electoral system was imposed on the nation, in which the rule of the buffalo is governed by whose stick-It is also worth mentioning here that the PTI had approached the Supreme Court against these three bills in which the Chief Justice and other judges of the bench had raised a legal question as to how the coalition government could pass such bills. While PTI members are not present in the assembly, it should be noted that after the coalition government came, Imran Khan boycotted the parliament with his party and later he also resigned. In the absence of a large number of the assembly, it can pass such important bills and impose them on the nation – but in Pakistan, But everything is possible in Pakistan by hook and crook.The coalition government, which came into power under the Compromise Agreement, did these three things and received its full price in the election 2024, and now the results of the elections held on February 8, 2024 have not been fully presented five days later. During these five days, the media channels witnessed how a winning candidate was defeated overnight and a losing candidate was declared winner.The United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union also expressed their displeasure and concern over this open rigging and alleged manipulation to prevent the results and demanded that the people’s mandate be respected and not by internal conspiracies to favor their own people, should be imposed on the nation-As the topic of our program is “Why and how votes are stolen in Pakistan”, then the partial answer to the first part of this question may have been understood in the form of the above introduction-In fact, the election,in the democracy is the right of the people to vote in which they choose their leaders so that they can go to the assembly and represent their rights, have development work in their areas, provide them with basic facilities,development of their areas and other utility bills should be taken according to their budget and income, the people who give the tax to the government, then their elected representatives can build their constituencies through this tax and be able to take the path of development – that is why it has been named democracy, that is, the decision of the people, for the people, by the people -But it is a pity that public opinion has never been respected in the history of Pakistan, be it the election of the time of Mother Nation Fatima Jinnah or the recent election.Benazir Bhutto gave a historical name to such an election i.e. “engineered” election, what did the people want and what did they get? An excellent post on social media gives a true picture of this, stating thatThe test match of General Election 2024 has entered the fifth day.Day 1: PTI 179/N-League 35Da