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Carry on Nawaz Sharif obliging your courtiers…You are the king of Pakistan..!

Brother of PM’s aide appointed AIOU VC

By A Reporter
Updated about 8 hours ago

ISLAMABAD: Even as the ruling party is under fire for their ‘nepotistic’ style of governance, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has picked the younger brother of his adviser on national affairs to head the leading distance-learning university of the country.

President Mamnoon Hussain, on the advice of the prime minister, on Thursday appointed Professor Dr Shahid Siddiqui, the younger brother of Irfan Siddiqui, as Vice Chancellor of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU).

In addition, the president also appointed Professor Javed Ashraf as the VC of the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) and Professor Dr Masoom Yasinzai as the Rector of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI).

Speaking to Dawn, Irfan Siddiqui said his brother was selected purely on merit. “He is a competent person and was selected on merit, not because he is my brother,” he added.

The prime minister selected the three educationists from a list of nine (three against each post) sent to him by a search committee headed by Education Minister Mohammad Balighur Rehman.

Published in Dawn, October 3rd, 2014

Once bitten twice shy..!

Link:- http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article-89176/

Now we understand why the government refused to open 4 constituencies earlier demanded by Imran Khan..!

And then Khawaja Saad Rafiq had the gall to shout the loudest..?

Commission finds irregularities in NA-125 election

By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh
Published about 3 hours ago

LAHORE: A commission appointed to examine polling bags and other records in NA-125, Lahore, has found several irregularities in the election, which was won by Khwaja Saad Rafiq of the PML-N.

Lawyer Hamid Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, who was the runner-up in the constituency, had challenged the result before an election tribunal and sought to inspect the polling record.

Know more: ECP says 40 presiding officers were replaced at PTI candidate’s request

The hearing of the petition was transferred to Faisalabad after the PTI candidate showed distrust in the presiding officer of the Lahore election tribunal. The Faisalabad tribunal appointed a retired district and sessions judge, Sheikh Mohammad Tareef, as head of the commission, which submitted its report to the tribunal on Sept 29.

The petitioner’s side will carry out cross-examination on Saturday (Oct 4).

The head of the commission said in his report: “After examining each and every polling bag and minutely viewing the state of affairs carried out in this constituency, there is gross mismanagement and the polling personnel carried out the election process clumsily for reasons best known to them.

“The polling bag of each polling station shows that the process of the election carried out is the result of gross mismanagement.

“There were 265 polling stations and for each station one polling bag was assigned, but assistant returning officer (ARO) produced 253 polling bags out of that a number of them were related to provincial assembly constituency. Thereafter 179 more polling bags were produced before the commission making a total 432 polling bags.

“The available polling bags contained waste and litter having a smeary dirt and mixture of disagreeable to the sight that reflected carelessness of polling personnel.

“In fact each polling bag of entire constituency is in the condition of such a mess that it can be said to be a trash and rubbish for reasons best known to the polling personnel.”

On close examination of bags, the report said, the commission found worthless things in a heap of litter and nothing was left for inspection.

It said that the polling staff failed to record what sort of articles were received from the returning officer (RO) and which articles had been consumed on the day of election. Polling bag of each polling station did not carry the essential record. The RO had not performed his duty regarding issuance of the inventory of articles to each polling station.

The report said that in the absence of inventory record, the evaluation of the ballot papers counted by the polling officer could not be held. Since everything had been done clumsily, no record was recovered from the dirt and litter of each polling bag as the polling personnel did not perform duty properly.

“Even voter list was not found from a large number of the polling bags. And where voter list was found the ballot papers were not tallied with the number of votes.

“The record of invalid votes was not found in any polling bag of the constituency, therefore, the question of recording any finding about rejection of votes did not arise.”

Published in Dawn, October 3rd, 2014

An EYE OPENING extract from the book titled “Confessions of an economic hit man” by John Perkins. The SPECIAL … http://t.co/LwNAJc4TP3

An EYE OPENING extract from the book titled “Confessions of an economic hit man” by John Perkins.

The SPECIAL point to be noted is that there is a special mention of the word “Rigged Elections”, which seen in its true prospect, fully applies to Pakistan.

Quote. “Economic hit men {EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. I should know; I was an EHM.” Unquote.

Pervaiz Rashid says that Imran Khan used poisonous language against the political opponents.

Mr. Pervaiz Rashid what about the reality that PMLN used bullets to directly fire at the unarmed kids, ladies and men (about 100 in Lahore and 45 in Islamabad) in Lahore and Islamabad..?

The silence of Ch. Nisar for so long a period is really deafening.

The problem with poor Javed Hashmi is that when he speaks a lie, he fails to hide the body language.

Has the PPP missed the bus just to protect some of its corrupt top leaders from the government’s power to speedily prosecute?

A few minutes ago, Dr. Jahangir Bader speaking over Din News TV, has very emphatically appreciated in a very positive manner, the PTI Jalsa in Mianwali.

He was particularly amazed about the ladies participation in the Mianwali Jalsa, where it was unimaginable and incomprehensible that strict Parda observing ladies of Mianwali, will strongly and openly come out in the
open to support the new Pakistan agenda .