Pakistan Poll Rigging RIGGING IN ELECTIONS;--

Massive fraud! - An Eyewitness Account
By Erik de Bruyn

Erik de Bruyn, leader of the left wing of the Flemish Socialist Party in Belgium has been invited by the PPP to monitor the elections in Pakistan. In particular he is monitoring the elections in the industrial belt of Karachi (NA 257) where the PPP candidate Riaz Lund is challenging the ruling extreme right wing party, the MQM. Here what his personal report on day of election.

Yesterday started with hope, as you can see from my earlier report. But what I saw yesterday made me realise that this Election Day was just the beginning of a very long struggle of liberation of the people of Pakistan. Yesterday I visited some twenty 'sensitive' polling stations. All of them are in an area dominated by the MQM, the party in power in Karachi and the Sindh Province and the local pillar of the Musharraf regime.

When I say 'dominated' you have to take this quite literally. In theory all parties have the right to send scrutineers to the polling stations. In this area I saw only twenty percent of stations with PPP scrutineers. Other opposition parties were not even to be seen. How is this possible? The scrutineers present are incredibly courageous people. They suffer ill treatment, are sometimes abducted and often even killed by the parties in power. A collaborator of an independent NGO told me that yesterday official figures indicated that 15 scrutineers of the PPP were assassinated in the whole country. Most of the 27 people killed yesterday were scrutineers at polling stations, quite apart from the abductions, torture, etc. Last night two PPP women activists in Karachi were still missing. We tried to compensate for the absence of a sufficient number of PPP scrutineers by organising a kind of flying picket in this 'sensitive zone'.
The forms with the electoral results being changed or filled in at the central counting office of the NA-257 district, where the data should only be collected and counted.

The absence of PPP scrutineers was not the only thing I saw: some polling stations were decorated as headquarters of the MQM. Election forms which had already been filled in (pro-MQM of course) were strewn around the tables ready to get stamped by the officials, identification papers of people who are not on the electoral rolls (in other words people who do not exist), suitcases filled with election forms which were either not sealed or badly sealed. Some of the cases of fraud were solved by our presence and intervention. Some 900 MQM votes have been declared null and void as a result of these irregularities.

However, the worst was yet to come. In the evening I went to the central counting office of the NA 257 district. What I saw and photographed there defies everything imaginable. Stacks of bags full of election forms were broken open. Forms were being filled in or changed in the corridors of the court hall. Other original forms were thrown away. Thanks to our pressure and the presence of the local media, a local president of the polling station was arrested and taken away. But will it surprise you to learn that the socialist PPP candidate Riaz Lund, who in the evening was winning with 15,000 votes in 50 out of the 198 polling stations, has officially lost the election?

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American Muslims and Presidential Elections 2008 Re: # 20 the muslims are getting l....d everywhere because we have tribes like yusufzais

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Talking to Jamil Dehlavi about Infinite Justice and More Who is Brig (Retd) Niaz who is being given much prominence in the
media. He is reputed to be an instructor of General (Retd) Musharaf
and currently is being viewed as the Grand Deal maker of Musraraf's
dying dispensation.


Brig. Niaz who hails from village Dharnial Tehsil Pind Dadan (where
majority profess to be followers of Ahmadi sect) was a sepoy clerk in
the Army. Due to shortage of officers after partition the Army started
a scheme whereby sepoy clerks were inducted into the officer ranks.
Brig Niaz was amongst those who benefited from this scheme. Brig Niaz
was amongst the three Brigadiers who played General Zia's game very
cleverly in 1977 in Lahore during the PNA movement in the sense that
they refused to come to the aid of an elected civil Government when it
wanted to quell violence unleashed by the Mullah dominated alliance.
The lawlessness in the country was later used as a pretext to impose
Martial Law. Contrast this to the officer's corps willingness to go on
killing a spree in Baluchistan, FATA, and Swat etc in order to save
the unelected Government of an Army dictator. In retrospect the
refusal to obey a civilian Governments order during a mullah lead
campaign also confirms existence of Mullah – Military Alliance.


After retirement from the Army Brig. Niaz started a food outlet in
Lalkurti area of Rawalpindi Cantonment. His luck changed when General
Zia Ul Haq summoned him and Brig (Retd) Ashraf Gondal (the other Brig
at Lahore in 1977) and introduced them to the executives of Swedish
(Ericsson) and Swiss (Orlikon) firms who were in the process of
receiving huge Defense supply orders from the Army. Both these
Brigadiers acted as front men for Zia Ul Haq. Multimillion dollars
orders were placed for Law Altitude Defense Radars (LADS) with
Ericsson of Sweden and for anti aircraft guns Orlikons with the Swiss
Company. It is reported that these two deals netted a commission of
nearly 100 million US Dollars which these Brigadiers shared with
Zia Ul Haq.


After becoming a millionaire in Dollar terms Brig. Niaz started living
lavishly and entertaining lavishly. Parvaiz Musharaf was amongst the
group of officers who were regularly supplied with all sorts of booze
and other things in life courtesy the Brigadier who also employed Col.
(Retd) Aslam Cheema a course mate and best friend (closer then Tariq
Aziz) of Musharraf and after Musharraf's uncle retired he too was
appointed as an office Manager in Niaz's Business.


After Musharaf became the President Cheema became the main Defense
supplier and a partner of Niaz. Both have managed to snatch the
agencies of old established defense agents by forcing the suppliers to
change agents if they wanted business in Pakistan. Over the last four
years Cheema and Niaz (both Ahmedi's) have managed to secure following
businesses:-


1) Supply of tank engines for Al - Khalid & Al- Zarar tanks
from Ukraine – worth nearly 500 millions US Dollars.


2) Supply of Early warning system for Air force from SAAB
Sweden worth 1.2 Billion US Dollars. This deal signed one week after
the earthquake of October 2005 was originally for 650 Million US
Dollars. Niaz over invoiced it by US Dollars 550 million. What a rape
of a poor country's resources.


In addition Niaz & Cheema are now the biggest contractor/suppliers in
Civil Departments. One of their front Companies will be building the
new GHQ worth billions of rupees. Obviously Mush gets a big share of
this bounty.


Niaz's recommendation matters the most in securing promotions and good
postings both in the Army as well as on the Civilian side.

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