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| 313 percent turnout at Jacobabad polling station |
| 2002-10-20 |
| The Election Commission hearing rigging complaints was informed on Saturday that at a polling station in Jacoabad, from where a joint candidate of Sindh Democratic Alliance and National Alliance Saleem Jan Mazari was contesting the turnout, remained as high as 313 per cent. The total number of registered votes in the polling station, according to official gazette, was 273, whereas the results announced by the Election Commission showed that 855 votes were polled there. Don't forget to vote early and often! |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 PPP for disqualification of Laleka for fake graduation degree . Wednesday September 10, 2003 (1450 PST) ISLAMABAD, September 11 (Online): Pakistan People's Party has appealed to the chief justice of the Supreme Court to take action against the legislators who contested general elections on the basis of fake degrees. "The Chief Justice of Pakistan should order for early disposal of the cases through which the fake degrees have been challenged", said Mir Imran Bajarani, member of PPP central working committee while addressing a press conference here Wednesday. On the PPP campaign against the fake degree holders, seated in the parliament, he said that under the directives of party chairperson, Benazir Bhutto he was engaged in collecting the details about the lawmakers who won the election under government patronage on the basis of fake degrees. He regretted that fake degrees of those legislators were accepted who showed readiness to support government. Abdul Sattar Lalika and Salim Jan Mazari are among heavy weights of the ruling party who are sitting in the parliament with fake degrees, he pointed out. He informed that his rival, Salim Jan Mazari, filed his nomination papers with fake degree. How ironical it is that Mazari mentioned his educational qualification as intermediate when he filed his nomination papers in 1997 and the degree he submitted alongwith his nomination papers in general elections 2002 is shown to have been issued in 1997, he indicated. Giving details of his campaign on tracing the cases of fake degrees, he said that " I proceed to London to probe into fake degree awarding process. An office is set up in a room of a building at London where fake degrees are issue. Degree is given within a week at the cost of 3 to 10 thousands pounds, he hinted. Besides Salim Jan Mazari, MPA from Badin, Ali Bakhsh Shah comes second in the line of the provincial assembly members who obtained fake degrees from London, he disclosed. Election Commission should declare all the parliamentarians holding fake degrees, he demanded. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5696 2004-07-11 12:35:28 PM |
| #2 Dubai a haven for Pak renegade babus. July 09, 2004 01:55 Hrs (IST) Islamabad: Dubai has become a haven for scores of Pakistani politicians and bureaucrats, who are on the run to avoid prosecution in various corruption and criminal cases in their home state. The politicians are not only carrying out their political activities from Dubai but are also raking in millions through business empires established in collaboration with Arab partners, a Newsline Magazine report said. Some of the prominent politicians who have made the Gulf their home in recent years are : Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Nusrat Bhutto, Fazal Pechuho and Mir Munawar Talpur, brothers-in-Law of Asif Zardari, Liaquat Jatoi, former Chief Minister of Sindh, Jam Mashooq, son of Muslim League Leader Jam Sadiq Ali and Saleem Shahzad and Aminul Haq of the Mutihada Quami Movement(MQM). Several Pakistan Muslim League (PML) leader like Abu Baker Shaikani have also set up factories in the UAE, The Magazine reported. Benazir Bhutto lives in Dubai along with her mother. Dozens of Party workers visit her every week from Pakistan to discuss Party affairs. The Former Prime Minister has been charged in several corruption case and her husband is in jail for the past few years in this connection. Mir Talpur and Fazal Pechuho were whisked away to Dubai in a boat and both of them are running businesses there. In fact reports state that Asif Zaradari had asked them to take care of his family and assets in Dubai. Several other Pakistan Peoples Party(PPP) Leaders, who have moved their assets from Pakistan to set up corporate ventures in the United Arab Emirates are Haji Muzzafar Shurja, and Sarfarza Gebol, whose business includes a luxury hotel in Muscat. Liaqat Jatoi has also found refuge in Dubai. He made his way to Dubai Via Iran and is running a hotel business there. Jam Mashooq Ali,who is wanted in several corruption cases in Pakistan, has also settled in Dubai. His powerful connections in the Gulf came to his rescue which enabled him to flee Pakistan in a special plane owned by an Arab Sheikh. The MQM leaders are engaged in spare parts business in Dubai. They have also been awarded catering contracts. Jailed prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family has a well established business in the Gulf. Saifur rehman, who heads a leading construction company in Qatar, is a business partner of the Sharifs. Other politicians settled in Dubai include former Sindh Minister Salim Jan Mazari who was wanted in Japanese students kidnapping for ransom case during PPP government and Raja Sain,eldest son of Pir of Pagaro and the Jatois. Other than politicians, there are numerous bureaucrats living lavishly in the UAE, including A. R. Bughio, Nayyer Bari and Hussain Lawal. The magazine quoting officials said these politicians and bureaucrats have moved 90 per cent of their assets to the Gulf. UNI |
| Posted by: Anonymous5683 2004-07-11 9:25:14 AM |
| #1 Somewhere in a bunker, Sammy's hitting his election advisor... "And you said I couldn't get over 100%!" |
| Posted by: El Id 2002-10-21 11:55:33 |