PPP, PTI, JUI-F, NP, BNP-M stage demonstration as wheeling and dealing underway to form unity government
\nislamabad
\nProtests are ongoing across three provinces in Pakistan \u2014 Sindh, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
\nThe PTI, JUI-F, PTI, and other political parties are staging protests in different cities against the results of the general elections 2024.
\nIn Quetta, workers of National Party, Hazara Democratic Party and Balochistan National Party demonstrated outside the district returning officer\u2019s office, while roads across the provincial capital, Chaman, Killa Saifullah, Loralai and Pishin were blocked due to the ongoing protests.
\nAs a result, land communication of Balochistan with Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was cut off.
\nMeanwhile, PPP continued its sit-in in Naseerabad against the alleged polls rigging for the sixth day.
\nThe Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has staged a protest in Sindh\u2019s Hyderabad city against alleged rigging in the February 8 nationwide elections.
\nThe demonstration was organised outside the politico-party\u2019s district secretariat at Shehbaz building. The protesters demanded the issuance of notification for \u2018victorious candidates\u2019 on PS-9, PS-22 and NA-191 seats.
\nANP has announced kicking off its nationwide protests against alleged alteration in the general election results from February 20.
\nThe party, which failed to win any National Assembly seat and only secured two Balochistan Assembly seats and one KP provincial seat, will start its protests from Swabi district which will be followed by another demonstration on February 23 in Charsadda.
\nJaved Akhtar was not a winning candidate in the general elections 2024
\nOn February 11, 2024, a video message of politician Javed Akhtar circulated on social media platform X with the claim that he was forcibly made to win the general elections and refused to accept this.
\nThe caption quoted him as saying: \u201cI have been forced to win. my opponent Sardar Farhat (PTI) had won. Defeating the winner is an insult to the people\u2019s mandate.\u201d
\n\u201cIndependent candidate Javed Lund refuses to take fake mandate. Condemns rigging, congratulates PTI candidate,\u201d the caption further said but did not mention which constituency Akhtar has supposedly won from.
\nHowever, Javed did not say this nor did he win in the constituencies he was contesting.
\nPTI\u2019s Jhagra claims rigging in Feb 8 polls \u2018unprecedented\u2019
\nPTI leader Taimur Khan Jhagra has claimed that \u201cunprecedented rigging\u201d took place in the Feb 8 polls.
\n\u201cSpecifically in Peshawar, I keep on saying that that the blatant falsification of results on 8 seats has been done in a way that cannot be hidden,\u201d he wrote in a post on X.
\nJhagra also expressed surprise that JUI-F\u2019s Maulana Fazlur Rehman and ANP\u2019s Aimal Wali would \u201cvouch for the rigging done on my seat\u201d.
\nBeyond the polls
\nBeyond the tall claims politicians made during their election campaigns lie tough ground realities that public representatives now have to face. During their campaigns, some politicians promised to offer 300 free units to poor households. Others assured their supporters that they would build millions of houses.
\nPML-N leaders acted like modern monarchs, asking their courtiers what they wanted and declaring then and there that their wishes would be fulfilled. From airports, universities and medical colleges to roads, everything was promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PPP, PTI, JUI-F, NP, BNP-M stage demonstration as wheeling and dealing underway to form unity government islamabad Protests are ongoing across three provinces in Pakistan \u2014 Sindh, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The PTI, JUI-F, PTI, and other political parties are staging protests in different cities against the results of the general elections 2024. In Quetta, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n