General Elections 2018 : JI, JUI-F, TLP, MMA news

[Arham_PakFan]

This thread will be used to post news regarding all the religious/Islamic political parties for the 2018 general elections.

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MMA to contest on 180 NA and 413 PA seats: Azeem

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami spokesman and MMA candidate from NA-135, Amirul Azeem, has said the MMA parliamentary board awarded tickets to 180 MMA candidates for National Assembly and 413 candidates for the four provincial assemblies for contesting general elections 2018 on the symbol of Book.

He said the parliamentary board having its meetings in Islamabad would take the decision of the candidates from former Fata seats today (Monday). Talking to reporters after a meeting on Sunday, he said more than seven percent female candidates would contest NA and PA seats on MMA tickets and a country-wide campaign would be launched to mobilise the women to exercise their vote.

He demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan to seek an oath from all the candidates for strict compliance of the code of ethics to prevent the hijacking of the elections through the ill-gotten wealth of the candidates.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/333399-mma-to-contest-on-180-na-and-413-pa-seats-azeem

 

[AssassinatedDevil]

MML’s social media moot

LAHORE: Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) emir Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has urged the youth to play their due role in protecting ideological boundaries of the country.

“The enthusiasm the youth showed at the time of creation of Pakistan needed to be instilled again,” he said while speaking at social media workshop of the Milli Muslim League (MML), JuD’s political face, which is taking part in the next month elections from the platform of Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1415986/mmls-social-media-moot

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Islamabad: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has agreed on accommodating Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam (Fazal-ur-Rehman) (JUI-F) from one of three National Assembly constituencies from the federal capital while JI central leader Mian Muhammad Aslam as candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) will contest from two seats.

Addressing a press conference along with other leaders, Mian Muhammad Aslam said that Raja Bilal Faisal of JUI-F has been nominated as consensus candidate of MMA from NA-52 Islamabad. He will face former federal cabinet member of the PML-N Government Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry and Raja Khurram Nawaz of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) on July 25.

Mian Aslam who is also central naib ameer of JI has been awarded MMA ticket from NA-53 and NA-54 from where he will be facing the PTI chairman Imran Khan and ex MNA Asad Umar respectively.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/333618-jamaat-to-accommodate-jui-f-on-one-na-seat-in-capital

 

[giri26]

ASWJ chief Aurangzeb Farooqui has very limited financial assets

ISLAMABAD: Aurangzeb Faroo*qui, president of the banned Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) who is contesting the election for both national and provincial assemblies’ seats in Karachi from the platform of Rahe Haq Party, has very limited financial assets as per his documents placed by the Election Commission of Pakistan at its website.

According to the documents, Hafiz Aurangzeb is a prayer leader (imam) who owns one house and his total financial worth is around Rs7 million. He has a monthly salary of Rs30,000 and has no vehicle, business, weapons or any other assets. His spouse has no jewellery. Incidentally, the documents do not reflect any police case against Hafiz Aurangzeb.

Syed Mustafa Kamal, chief of Pak Sarzameen Party who has filed nominations papers for seats of both the national and provincial assemblies, has a liability of Rs1.20 million, whereas the worth of his assets and cash holding is less than Rs9m.

His business ‘Transglobal Con*sultancy (Pvt) Limited’ is valued at Rs400,000 and his investment in shares and stocks is Rs194,892. He has Rs193,986 cash in hand and Rs555 in bank. His personal belongings, including furniture, are worth Rs100,000.

Mr Kamal, a former Karachi nazim and parliamentarian from the MQM, does not have any property, vehicle, jewellery, weapons, etc, to declare.

Amir Liaquat Hussain, another former MQM parliamentarian who is now contesting the election from the platform of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, has a net wealth of Rs49.08m. In the documents submitted to the returning officer, he has stated that his tax for the year 2017 was “pending to be paid”.

Mr Hussain, who is contesting the election from NA-245 (Karachi), has a plot in Khudadad Colony and one house each in DHA and PECHS — all valued at Rs14.48m. The worth of his production house is Rs19.53m and a business in Dubai is worth 300,000 dirhams. His two cars are valued at Rs3.50m. However, he has a loan of Rs25m.

Syeda Shehla Raza, former deputy speaker of the Sindh Assembly, who is contesting the election for a National Assembly seat in Karachi, has limited financial holdings. Her total assets amount to Rs7.80m out of which Rs7.16m is cash in hand or bank, mainly from the salary as legislator. She has eight tola gold jewellery and other items worth Rs390,000. She has no vehicle, property, business or investments.

Syed Murad Ali Shah, former Sindh chief minister, has 466 acres of land mainly inherited in his native Sehwan.The documents submitted for PS-80 (Sehwan-Sann) show that his total wealth is more than Rs213.91m, including Rs158m cash in hand or in bank accounts. He has $264,368 in a foreign currency account, a house in DHA Karachi, one Vigo and one Land Cruiser valued at Rs14.20m.

Ameer Bux Khan Bhutto, son of former Sindh chief minister Mumtaz Bhutto, has one inherited house, 300 acres of agricultural land and four weapons. His total wealth is Rs48.03m with businesses amounting to Rs12.62m and four vehicles valued at Rs13.78m. Mr Bhutto has Rs154,729 in a bank account.

Former leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has total wealth of around Rs35.91m, including 123 acres of agricultural land, three plots and an ancestral house in Sukkur. His income in the fiscal year 2016-17 was Rs11.75m and he paid Rs1.74m as income tax.

MQM-Bahadurabad chief Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui lives in a family-owned house and all his assets are worth around Rs1.41m. However, his son has gifted prize bonds worth Rs2.50m to him and his cash holding amounts to Rs1.38m.

MQM-PIB chief Dr Farooq Sattar has a financial worth of Rs2.82m, including Rs2.15m in bank. He has a loan of Rs1.35m. Dr Sattar owns a flat and an inherited house, a 2005-model car and his main source of income was salary as parliamentarian.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1416359/aswj-chief-farooqui-has-very-limited-financial-assets

 

[Loralai]

It should be a matter of shame and concern that characters like Farooqi, Hafiz Saeed, Khadim Hussain Rizvi are involved in our political process. I was watching a video recently of a TLYR candidate who said that the party's only purpose was the protection of Khatm-e-Nabuwat - a party with a one point agenda like this really shouldn't be allowed to run.

 

[Mian]

It should be a matter of shame and concern that characters like Farooqi, Hafiz Saeed, Khadim Hussain Rizvi are involved in our political process. I was watching a video recently of a TLYR candidate who said that the party's only purpose was the protection of Khatm-e-Nabuwat - a party with a one point agenda like this really shouldn't be allowed to run.

In democracy you have to give everyone a voice so they can raise it in assemblies instead of doing it on roads. I think it's the best way to handle them by engaging them in politics and look it's been 70 years since creation but Pakistan people in majority never voted for religious party so there is no chance of them coming in to power.

 

[Loralai]

In democracy you have to give everyone a voice so they can raise it in assemblies instead of doing it on roads. I think it's the best way to handle them by engaging them in politics and look it's been 70 years since creation but Pakistan people in majority never voted for religious party so there is no chance of them coming in to power.

I haven't got anything against established political parties like JI and JUI being part of political process (although I dislike their politics and policies immensely).

But newer parties like AAT (backed by Hafiz Saeed's candidates from MML) or TLYR are simply not equipped to be political parties and they should not be a part of our system given that their policies are founded on hate and sectarianism.

How do you think minorities in Pakistan must feel when you have parties like TYLR running for elections given some of things that Khadim Hussain Rizvi has said? This so-called man of Islam has advocated violence Ahmadis and has glorified terrorists like Tanveer Ahmad and Mumtaz Qadri.

 

[Mian]

I haven't got anything against established political parties like JI and JUI being part of political process (although I dislike their politics and policies immensely).

But newer parties like AAT (backed by Hafiz Saeed's candidates from MML) or TLYR are simply not equipped to be political parties and they should not be a part of our system given that their policies are founded on hate and sectarianism.

How do you think minorities in Pakistan must feel when you have parties like TYLR running for elections given some of things that Khadim Hussain Rizvi has said? This so-called man of Islam has advocated violence Ahmadis and has glorified terrorists like Tanveer Ahmad and Mumtaz Qadri.

With time they will calm down just engage them and remember it was JUI who forced Bhutto for this amendment in Constitution against Ahmedis and look where JUI stands now? I don't even remember the last time JUI said anything related to Ahmedis.

 

[Loralai]

With time they will calm down just engage them and remember it was JUI who forced Bhutto for this amendment in Constitution against Ahmedis and look where JUI stands now? I don't even remember the last time JUI said anything related to Ahmedis.

I don't think they will calm down. These parties needs to be told to drop sectarianism and hate speech or be sanctioned and banned.

The fact that our Constitution was changed to label the Ahmadi community as non Muslim was very wrong and it should have never have happened. The state has no right to interfere in such matters and has no authority to decide who is and is not a Muslim. The fact we haven't realised this yet shows how far we have to develop.

We must remember that Khatam-e-Nabuwat must not be turned into a political issue. Religion is a private matter and Pakistan can only excel as a nation when we realise that religion and politics must not be intertwined.

 

[Mian]