“In social club for things to remain the same, everything must change” – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Here’s the problem: the winning party, the Election Commission too other institutions involved inwards terminal week’s national polls tell in that place is nil incorrect inwards the agency the results were announced, too that the outcome of the electoral do is the volition of the people. They tell it’s fair play.
Those affected past times the unprecedented delay inwards poll results announcements too almost surreal developments inwards vote counting too tabulation, amidst other things, outcry brazen foul play. They allege that the umpire’s pollex too finger both were at run inwards ensuring the PTI’s victory (and their loss). So piece Imran Khan wants to brand authorities at the oculus too inwards Punjab, the broad coalition of parties (PML-N, MMA, ANP, PPP, PSP, MQM, too the rest) wants to expand their protestation too inquiry the really foundation on which the PTI’s victory stands.
Whom gain you lot believe? What gain you lot believe? This is a difficult one. It tin tear your encephalon apart. One condom agency to instruct a perspective on things is to tell yourself that the many strange things that guide maintain happened earlier too during these critical polls, too which together guide maintain produced this outcome, guide maintain been because of CPEC. Yes, CPEC – Crazy Process of Election-related Coincidences. You tin believe for the sake of staying sane that behind this CPEC lies about inscrutable universal forcefulness which sequenced political, judicial too electoral events inwards such a agency that they all ended upward giving the PTI its magnificent mandate too every other political party a humbling defeat.
Reliance on CPEC every bit a tool of reflection too analysis is especially helpful if you lot don’t similar to listen words similar ‘rigging’, ‘engineering,’ ‘fixing’, ‘buying’, ‘selling’ – words which nosotros heard endlessly for v years nigh 2013 elections, too are straightaway thus sick of them that nosotros only don’t desire to cite them.
So your analysis tin unfold something similar the following. It was CPEC that caused the collapse of the Election Commission’s famed organization for transmission of results. It somehow stopped working exactly when it was needed the most – at the halt of the polling time. It exactly happened that a basic organization similar this (for information transmission) which works fine inwards every nook too cranny of the world, processing hits inwards millions for tiny companies without fail, could non accept the charge of a few K hits hither inwards Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the 25th of July.
From this crazy coincidence flowed every other crazy coincidence: delay inwards the results announcement, banishing of polling agents of the losing parties from polling stations during the counting of the votes, disappearance of the counted vote aggregate (Form 45) that has to live on signed past times each contestant’s polling agent, too the inability of most presiding officers to achieve the offices of the Returning Officers – located 4 kilometres away – inwards about cases, fifty-fifty inwards 48 hours.
It was CPEC that created results inwards which the maximum rejected vote, which inwards at to the lowest degree 35 cases could guide maintain altered the outcome, belonged to the losing candidates. It was CPEC that ensured that somehow voters had to hold off the longest inwards constituencies where a healthier vote cast would guide maintain potentially led to the victory of the N-League.
It was CPEC that produced this amazing statistic of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Islamic Republic of Pakistan causing the loss of xiv National Assembly seats to solely i party: the PML-N. It was CPEC’s doing that every political party that could guide maintain potentially joined forces amongst the N-League to course of written report authorities at the oculus is wiped out – the MMA, the ANP too the MQM-P for instance. It was CPEC’s mistake that the main election commissioner, the secretarial assistant of the ECP too all the resources at their ascendance had no clue nigh securing ballot boxes’ tape too that the safety forces had to remain inwards custody of or stand upward at guard on the boxes during recounting fifty-fifty when their special duties had ended.
The impact of this Crazy Process of Election-related Coincidences was visible earlier the elections every bit well. From NAB getting deal of the likes of Eng Qamrul Islam contesting from Pindi on the northward ticket to the seven-year erstwhile illustration existence adjusted earlier the polls too resulting inwards the arrest too incarceration of about other N-Leaguer from the same city, Hanif Abbasi. It was exactly a coincidence that somehow all media outlets flora it convenient to outset talking nigh the PTI’s victory 2 hours afterwards the election fourth dimension shut fifty-fifty though a mere 3 per centum of results had been announced too total results could solely live on obtained afterwards 3 days.
CPEC also necessitated that all media outlets somehow agreed to blackout most intelligence of vast too really nasty populace protests inwards Punjab too Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over alleged rigging. It was exactly a coincidence that these outlets made sure, almost inwards unison, to mute or accept off press conferences of parties levelling serious allegations nigh the polling too itsresults.
It had to live on CPEC, what else, that ensured that Nawaz Sharif too Maryam Nawaz never instruct to present their faces – fifty-fifty inwards courtroom – to the populace fifteen days prior to the election too 10 days after. Thanks to CPEC, every courtroom illustration involving the Punjab authorities of the previous era became a media trial of politicians who were most song during their days every bit ministers.
CPEC created the Grand Democratic Alliance. It was CPEC that pricked the conscience of S of Punjab landlords too religious families to switch sides at the eleventh hour; the nascency of the Balochistan Awami Party was also a random coincidence. So is the amazing fact of the book of stories nigh Asif Ali Zardari too his sister’s cases of money laundering too other alleged crimes corresponding to their political opinion on whether to bring together forces amongst the PTI’s opponents or remain quiet.
Of course, it is exactly a crazy coincidence that everything that Shaikh Rashid said (from the main judge visiting the sight of the infirmary that Rashid wanted to consummate inwards his constituency to the Sharif identify unit of measurement landing specifically inwards Adiala Jail) too Javed Hashmi repeatedly predicted has come upward true!
You guide maintain to believe inwards CPEC too nil else to brand sense of the events that guide maintain taken identify on this country’s electoral chessboard late too those that guide maintain preceded them. Nobody is to live on blamed. No i did anything. Not fifty-fifty lifted a finger or made a call, or rolled out maps to create an elaborate conception to recast national politics. These things gain non spill out similar this. Maybe elsewhere inwards the uncivilised world, but non hither inwards Pakistan. No way. Nobody has anything to gain amongst anything. All election-related things guide maintain happened because they exactly happened.
But let’s live on clear on i thing: exactly because large things guide maintain only happened on their ain does non hateful that they volition non guide maintain consequences. CPEC’s consequences are far too wide. The election results guide maintain triggered a moving ridge of anger too a deep feeling of existence wronged inwards a large department of a charged electorate that cuts across at to the lowest degree 4 ethnic too linguistic boundaries – Baloch, Pakhtun, Mohajir too Punjabi. CPEC has activated religious groups amongst viciously sectarian or parochial worldviews too amongst matchless might to agitate the street.
CPEC has broken downward political ground into 2 unbridgeable halves too has planted seeds of terrifying distrust too enveloping hate amidst the immature too the erstwhile voter alike. It has set a siege on the conception to create a stable political social club past times putting a large inquiry grade on the legitimacy of the verdict of these critical elections.
These are long-term consequences that guide maintain already started to unfold. Only if this Crazy Process of Election-related Coincidences had non happened, Imran Khan’s victory would guide maintain been such a fantabulous affair for the province – neat, clean, undiluted too unquestioned. He could guide maintain really led the province from the front.
But straightaway he has to constantly await over his shoulder, embrace his sides and, what’s worse, constantly depend on CPEC to decease along him afloat. He is a homo belongings a tainted trophy fifty-fifty though without CPEC this trophy could good guide maintain been his, fair too square. But straightaway nosotros would never know that. All nosotros know is that the Crazy Process of Election-related Coincidences has created a majestic mess – of the kind out that volition non instruct sorted out easily. Wait too watch.
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