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7.6m extra ballots printed in last polls: ECP

23:08 Nov 28, 2014 PAKISTAN

ISLAMABAD: Replying to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s allegations, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) stated that 7.6 million extra ballot papers were printed in the last year general elections.

In a statement issued here Friday, the ECP said that extra ballot are printed to cope with any emergency situation that may emerge during elections.

“Extra ballot papers are usually used to replace the missing or damaged ballot papers and they don’t serve the purpose of rigging by any means,” it added.

Giving details of the ballot papers, the ECP said that the total number of registered voters are 861,89,802, whereas 180 million ballot papers were printed in total.

He said that 112,500,000 ballot papers were printed in Printing Corporation of Pakistan while 675,00,000 were printed in Security Printing Press.

Earlier, addressing a press conference, Imran Khan claimed that May 11, 2013 general elections were rigged by printing 5.5 million extra ballot papers. –

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Definition of Banana Republic in Wikipedia..!

A banana republic is a politically unstable country that economically depends upon the exports of a limited resource (fruits, minerals), and usually features a society composed of stratified social classes — a great, impoverished working class and a ruling plutocracy, composed of the élites of business, politics, and the military.

In political science, the term banana republic denotes a country dependent upon limited primary-sector productions, which is ruled by a plutocracy who exploit the national economy by means of a politico-economic oligarchy.

In American literature, the term banana republic originally denoted the fictional “Republic of Anchuria”, a “servile dictatorship” that abetted, or supported for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation.

In U.S. politics, the term banana republic is a pejorative political descriptor coined by the American writer O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings (1904), a book of thematically related short stories derived from his 1896–97 residence in Honduras, where he was hiding from U.S. law for bank embezzlement.

In practice, a banana republic is a country operated as a commercial enterprise for private profit, effected by the collusion between the State and favoured monopolies, whereby the profits derived from private exploitation of public lands is private property, and the debts incurred are public responsibility.

Such an imbalanced economy reduces the national currency to devalued paper-money, hence, the country is ineligible for international development-credit, and remains limited by the uneven economic development of town and country.

Kleptocracy, government by thieves, features influential government employees exploiting their posts for personal gain (embezzlement, fraud, bribery, etc.), with the resultant government budget deficit repaid by the native working people who earn money, rather than make money.

Because of foreign (corporate) manipulation, the kleptocratic government is unaccountable to its nation, the country’s private sector–public sector corruption operates the banana republic, thus, the national legislature usually are for sale, and function mostly as ceremonial government.

My humble doctrine for all the solutions of the region:-

Pak-Afghan 100% GENUINE friendship is the biggest guarantee of the prosperity of Pakistan, which will automatically force India to behave and come to table, for a meaningful dialogue for resolution of Kashmir and other important disputes between India and Pakistan..!

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

@nayyarahmad:

@TIME @ImranKhanPTI @PTIofficial @farrukhdall @Asad_Umar @SMQureshiPTI @JahangirKTareen

Imran Khan should and must be Time’s person of the year

Rebuild a Work Relationship That’s Gone Sour

If you haven’t been getting along with someone at work, there are ways you can repair the relationship. First, ask yourself what’s happening so you know what needs work. Are you having trouble communicating? Are you failing to see eye-to-eye on things? Give up being right, and resist your tendency to analyze every detail of what’s happened in your relationship. That’s not productive. Instead, look forward and reflect on what you want from the relationship. Try to see the other person’s perspective. When you’re ready to approach him, make it on neutral ground. Go out for lunch or coffee, rather than asking to meet at one of your desks. Don’t debate what went wrong or who is at fault. Focus on the bigger picture or a common goal you share. But don’t expect the relationship to change overnight; it takes time to reestablish trust and reciprocity.

Adapted from “Fixing a Work Relationship Gone Sour” by Amy Gallo.

“You can’t expect to be old and wise if you were never young and crazy.”

— Author Unknown

PMLN government has virtually surrendered and accepted its defeat by shutting down many TV channels.

SHAME ON SUCH SO CALLED DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE ORDERED TO FORCEFULLY SHUT DOWN ARY AND SAMAA TV TRANSMISSIONS AND MR ZARDARI HAS THE GALLS TO SAY WORST DEMOCRACY IS BETTER THAN DICTATORSHIP

SHAME ON LOOTERS AND PLUNDERERS OF PAKISTAN.

Misbah ul Haq is also gone. Pakistan 63/5.

The party is over…!