ECP warns parties with no intra-party election results to conduct them soon. PHOTO: FILE
One hundred and three parties including Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Awami National Party (ANP), Qaumi Watan Party, Balochistan National Party (BNP), Tahirul Qadri's party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP), Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan(JUP) which is an ally of Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) and other, have not submitted details about their intra-party elections. ECP warned that these parties will neither be allowed to participate in elections nor will they be allotted an election symbol.
The election commission further said, 91 parties still haven’t submitted details about their accounts, including MQI. These parties need to declare their assets as soon as possible in order to participate in upcoming general elections.
On Saturday, according to sources, the commission, in its bill pending with the Senate Standing Committee on Election Reforms, had proposed the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the National Accountability Bureau collaborate with it in the scrutiny process to weed out loan defaulters, tax evaders and those with bogus educational qualifications.
ECP is taking rigorous steps to conduct free and fair elections. Conducting intra-party elections has become mandatory for candidates hoping to participate in general elections.
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This is true democracy. Anyone in they party should be able to get a chance to run it. Right now, this ancient and primitive system where the chairman's son get to be the chairman (from Zardari to Bilalwal and from Nawaz to his son) embarrasses the true essence of democracy.
We need to get rid of all the incapable leaders who lived half their lives abroad and then were downloaded upon us just because their parents before them ran Pakistan.
The attitude problem of Kaptan Imran Khan is followed by the bunch of it's trolls, hyperactive on social media, by calling all others as fake and declaring only themselves as "genuine"!! Similarly, the Kaptan has been declaring every second matter as "unconstitutional" and then taking a U-Turn.
ECP doesnt differentiate between genuine and fake intra party elections so this law is useless unless ECP declares all fake intra party elections as illegal. Only PTI succeeded in conducting genuine.elections.
The only way to ensure genuine intra-party elections is to be conducted by the ECP herself, otherwise there is no way to know if the elections were conducted properly in a fair manner. ECP also should not allow party positions like Chairman/President for life or nominations through will. Moreover, party Chairman/President positions should be limited to a maximum of 5 to 10 years at the most.
@ Pakidude: PTI has been creating intra party elections drama for over a year but is mostly marred by the complaints of massive rigging, use of "big money" and other controversies. If a party, run by its life-time Chairman, can not hold free & fair elections it has absolutely no right to rule the country!
The scribe had been PRO with the chief of a political party in KPK during 2003-7 and had once witnessed the the farce of intra-party elections which were conducted by mere show of hand although ballot boxes had been purchased apparently for secret balloting.
If all our rules and laws and oaths taken were to be followed strictly we would have no President, no government, no political parties and possibly we would be much better off.
For PMLN and PPP, the intra-party elections are rather easy. Choose among Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal.
@Ahmed. i support Ahmed why they have not mentioned PPP with PMLQ
If allies of PMLN hasn't conducted elections then its not a concern of PMLN. ET delibrately tried to drag name of PMLN in this list without any reason. If this isn't yellow journalism then what is?
PTI is already into Intra-Party Elections! #RealDemocracy!