Pakistan Election 2013 l Nawaz Sharif government in Pakistan should form

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was available Sunday to form a new coalition government after his party's victory in Saturday's election, marked by a strong participation and some attacks. The return to power of a man of 63 years deposed by the coup of Pervez Musharraf in 1999, has yet to be officially confirmed by the electoral commission , but the partial results gave victory for granted. His main rival, the Movement for Justice (PTI) exestrella of cricket Imran Khan, who won the support of many young and middle class by promising to end corruption in the country, conceded defeat nationally . The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led coalition in power for five years, suffered a major setback to the point of being virtually eliminated from the political map of the country, sxcept in their stronghold in the southern province of Sindh. The elections were considered historic because it will allow a civilian government to pass the baton to another, having completed a five-year term, a novelty in this country created in 1947 and with a history marked by coups. Participation in the election was "about 60%" , said Saturday night the electoral commission. This is the turnout highest since 1977, according to election officials. During the last elections in 2008, the turnout of 44%. More than 86 million people were enabled to vote to appoint 342 deputies and representatives in four provincial assemblies. According to projections from the television channels, the Muslim League (PML-N) won a commanding lead Sharif on PTI (Movement for Justice) Imran Khan and the PPP of Bhutto family. After scrutinized more than half of the votes, the Pakistani TV channels said Sharif's party would get more than 115 seats out of 272 . About thirty would go to PTI and as many at PPP. The PML-N is thus achieved an absolute majority, and should enter into negotiations with the other parties to form a coalition. "We have to thank God for having given the PML-N another opportunity to serve Pakistan," Sharif said. " I urge all parties to sit around a table with me to solve the country's problems, "he said. The arrival of Sharif for the third time as prime minister in Pakistan constitute a record, having held the office between 1990 and 1993, until it fell for corruption, and between 1997 and 1999, when he was overthrown by the military coup Musharraf. More than 130 people died during the election campaign , considered by observers as the deadliest in the history of the country , in violence largely claimed by the Taliban Movement of Pakistan (TTP) opposed to the democratic process as "not Islamic". The TTP had announced a cascade of attacks on polling day, protected by over 600,000 members of the security forces. Nevertheless, the attacks were of limited magnitude on Saturday, but left 26 dead.

The conservative Nawaz Sharif was proclaimed winner of the elections in Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif leader of the conservative Muslim League (PML-N) has already claimed victory in the general elections of Pakistan. And his main opponent, Imran Khan has conceded defeat. In his first statement after learning of the orientation of the vote, Nawaz Sharif said that his party "has emerged as the largest political force in the country". "God has given us a new opportunity to serve the people," proclaimed the former prime minister to a group of followers. From the beginning, the Muslim League has capitanaedo results.According to an unofficial count , reported by 'Express Tribune', a leading Pakistani English daily, the PLM-N accounted 1199.894 vote with the scrutiny of about 6% of the ballots. Here stood the Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI), led by former cricketer Imran Khan, also an rightist and managed 519 623 votes. The third place was occupied by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of President Asif Ali Zardari, center-left and getting 438,167 votes.

Data confirm

If confirmed, these results ratify the polls predicted trend, which placed asf avorites for the PLMN and the PTI, both up to now in opposition, followed by the PPP, who led most outgoing government. According to local media, the Election Commission will not release the first official data from the scrutiny and until Tuesday or Wednesday will not provide the outcome of the elections. The elections were historic character, because it is the first in Pakistan to civilian rule gives way to another of the same character having exhausted its mandate.

The Pakistani Taliban challenge and go to the polls

The Pakistanis defied the Taliban Saturday and came in good numbers to the polls despite the insurgent death threat against those who participated in the day of general election held in this country. The former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and former cricketer turned-politician, Imran Khan, seem to be leading in the elections, according to partial counts on this historic day. Long lines of people were formed throughout the day in front of the polling stations in major cities of Pakistan, where terrorism is endemic but the violence was of low intensity and did not derail the voting process. In fact, the high influx and delays in opening some schools have led to the postponement of at least an hour of the polls closing. During the day, a dozen people died and dozens were injured in various attacks registered in the country. A device located in the vicinity of an office of the secular Awami National Party exploded in Karachi in southern Pakistan, said a police source. Also, several people were injured by the explosion of a bomb in a polling station in Peshawar, said the head of a local hospital. Next to the Afghan border and the epicenter of the local community Pashtun-majority in the neighboring country and to which belong the Taliban on both sides of the divide-, Peshawar is one of the most unsafe cities in Pakistan. But the atmosphere of relative normality in Peshawar election did not differ from the general trend recorded in the rest of the country. A policeman and eight civilians were wounded in the worst armed action from which it was known late in the afternoon in the city, which was framed by an electoral college in Pakistan masculine gender-vote separately-Charsadda area Road. As night fell, at 22:00 local time to begin the counting of votes, four people were killed and seven wounded in an attack on an independent candidate, Khadim Hussain in a remote town in southwest of Pakistan (Nasirabad) .

'We are not afraid'

One hundred people waited to cast their vote in that school a little more than three hours after it exploded a few meters in the morning a bomb with four kilos of explosives, planted on a motorcycle and detonated by remote control. "We are not afraid. After the explosion went but gradually have become , "he told Efe Waheed Ullah Khan, who was preparing to vote and explained that the only change from the outbreak is that people lined up on the opposite side to which the explosion occurred. "The Taliban are our biggest problem but we will resolve it by military means and negotiations , "said another voter, Ibrar Khan, who said that the insurgents killed three months ago his brother Inram in an explosion at a local bazaar. Police Capt. Ijaz Khan, in charge of the safety of another polling, enable a blind school in the east of the city, said early in the evening that "everything is superbly well, here there has been no incident ". "There has been a lot of people that do not have any fear of the Taliban and everything is developing normally , "he added.

Historical Involvement

The electoral commission said during the day that he expected the participation come closer to 60%, which would be the highest since 1977.However, the authorities expect that participation is lower among women , whose electoral participation remains a major unresolved. Moreover, a defendant still suffer educational deprivation and are immersed in the darkness in a country always dominated by men.Assemblies tribal and political groups in the province in which Peshawar is the capital, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, have forbidden the use of women's suffrage, which prevented women from several villages of districts in the area to exercise their right to vote. At a polling station Hazane female Pein a popular neighborhood of the provincial capital, voting was suspended a couple of hours after they lodge complaints of a group of women who had gone there to cast their ballots illegally. " The people have brought their to vote for a party and upon arrival they have for a different because they are illiterate and can not read what it says on the ballot, "said Mashal Ijaz Butt, comptroller of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP , left). Butt accused the Islamist Jamaat Islami (JI) and the conservative Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI) of women have offered 1,000 rupees (about ten dollars) for every vote, "what triggered the problem and had to close school. " According to a local observer, Shahaf Uddin, the situation was complicated because the police make themselves an endowment to evacuate the women refused to obey because they are male actors, and only did so when asked what her sex police.