It's funny how people are completely disregarding the importance of this step. To be honest, it doesn't matter what most people say on here, because all it's done is taken up Tahir ul Qadri's status to a whole new level.
in reply to "it would have happened anyway" IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF PAKISTAN. Anyone who has studied Pakistan politics would know that normally there is one day set aside for objections of candidates and during that time if the opposition wants they can challenge the electoral candidate but there is not enough time to provide evidence.
NOW a whole month has been set aside where the Electoral Commission itself will conduct an investigation into the electoral candidates according to Article 62 and 63 which would mean if they haven't filed Tax Returns, if they've been involved in corruption, if they lied about having a degree by using a fake degree then they will not be allowed to contest elections!
How many times has that happened before? Also this time, the caretaker prime minister won't be selected by Mr. Ashraf and Mr. Nisar so the two parties won't be able to put someone politically affiliated in.
What is the need to be so biased on here? I mean if something good happens, why not just admit it? What is the problem? I never liked Dr. Qadri, I never supported him but I've been mighty impressed by the way his organisation has used the media, they way they gathered support, the way in which the long march was conducted. They set up their own medical camps, they had their own security which was well organised and on top of all that, the whole political world was shaken by his Long March.
You can't deny the truth by compiling a character assassination and it isn't going to change the facts if you keep going on about what he said, what happened in the past, what YOU think is happening. The fact is that he's come out, organised a massive rally at Minar-e-Pakistan, then when people said the long march isn't going to happen, he made it happen and that too in an amazing way. Moreover, people were saying he's an army puppet? Where are those today? Those who said he's backed by the US? Where are those today? I mean it's very easy to shift the blame on someone but the hard part is to admit you were wrong about a personality and praise him.
There are always two sides to an argument so whatever someone does, you can always make an excuse and present the other side to it and make that person look like a fraud. If he had come out of his bunker, people would have said "What an Idiot, there was a threat to his life after the Fatwa he gave against terrorists, what is he doing out of his bunker in front of this huge crowd?" If he doesn't come out and protects himself knowing there are threats to his life and knowing that no security has been provided by the government then people say, "Ahh what an idiot, people are outside he's in his bunker, relaxing".
The funny thing is he was relaxing a lot more when he was traveling around the world and giving a single lecture in universities against terrorism in Islam. He was a lot more relaxed when he was sitting down writing books, compiling books in Canada but he came here, he held conferences EVERYDAY with different groups of people, ran a campaign and forced the government to accept most of his demands.
I really dislike how people always look for opportunities to attack a person and would pick up a new point after every point they put before that is rebutted. Sometimes we need to assess ourselves and think, enough is enough? Why don't we accept that maybe we don't agree with him but he's achieved something and done something for a better political system, a better electoral system.