1. Politics in Pakistan is quite interesting and scary right now. Pakistan has a multi-party system that uses First-Past-The-Post voting for the National Assembly. 44 political parties have fielded candidates in the National Assembly elections. Probably at least 12 of them will win at least one seat, with probably 4 of them winning at least 10 seats. The day before the election, two large explosions killed 30+ and injured dozens more at two separate political party offices. One blast was at the office for independent candidates backed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI)) and the other was at regional party offices for the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam JUI-F party. An ISIS group took credit for the attacks. A month before several campaign offices were attacked with grenades from a separatist group that has several of their own parties. Pakistan went from largely having 1 major party until 2 and then 3 in the 1990’s. Now, depending upon how to categorize them, could be considered to have 4 major parties with about 150 total parties in all largely divided by ethnic & religious lines and influences from Afghanistan, China, Russia and the United States. The Pakistan military has a lot of influence and control over local and national elections. The government blacked out cell phone service during a large chunk of the day during voting. Police opened fire on Independent (PTI) protestors in several locations. After the polls closed, large counting delays have only increased the lack of faith in the results.

2. The leader of the PTI party (independents), former Prime Minister Imran Khan is sitting in prison. His wife was also jailed. They were found guilty of getting married too soon after his divorce. He was later guilty of additional charges related to corruption and barred from running for office. The party name was stripped and the party icon (a cricket bat) was not allowed to be used in association with independent candidates. Millions of Pakistani voters can not read so that symbol was important for them to identify Khan associated candidates. All Khan speeches were barred, along with and mentions of Khan or PTI in election related activities and advertisements, including online. Khan was criticized by the west for not denouncing the Russian invasion of Ukraine and for working with Russia on the multibillion-dollar Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline project. Khan & the PTI- Independents had claimed before the election that it would be rigged against them. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, just recently came back to Pakistan after being in exile for several years in order to avoid corruption charges had his charges dropped. Sharif is the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League Party (PML-N) which was expected to win the National Assembly Election, but will likely finish behind the PTI-affiliated independents with 55-70 seats. Sharif is attempting to form a coalition with enough of the other parties to gain power by negotiating with the leader of the third largest party, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) led by Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the son of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The PPP may win somewhere between 40-55 seats. The fourth largest party (depending upon how you classify them) is the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) which affiliated with the Balochistan separatist movement, along with some other minor parties. Baloch nationalists and militants have been having violent clashes with the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran in their quest for independence. Balochs are a nomadic, ethnic group that has their own language. They travel with grazing animals and plant crops in one area, leave and come back at harvest time. Pakistan has a lot going on. I forgot to mention in the previous comment that Taliban fighters took over several polling stations on Election Day. The aggressive attempts to stop Khan has appeared to have helped his PTI turned independents. Some of the big issues in the election besides all of the ethnic/religious divisions was inflation, overall economy, homelessness, crime and foreign influence from Russia and USA.

3. Many may have heard in the news in recent weeks that Iran and Pakistan traded missile strikes. That exchange had nothing to do with the Israel-Palestine situation as the media subtly tried to suggest. Those exchanges had everything to do with the Baloch separatist groups trying to disrupt oil, gold and rare earth mineral excavating in the region they call home in Iran and Pakistan. Russia, China & USA $$ interests involved in those operations.

   https://www.reuters.com/world/who-are-separatists-targeted-by-pakistans-strikes-iran-2024-01-18/

4. Electoral system
   The 336 members of the National Assembly consist of 266 general seats elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies,[91] 60 seats reserved for women elected by proportional representation based on the number of general seats won by each party in each province, and ten seats reserved for non-Muslims elected through proportional representation based on the number of overall general seats won by each party.
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   ONE MORE ANTI-DEMOCRACY GERRYMANDER REGIME [DUE TO ROTTED BRITS] —

   WITH RESULTING NUTCASE RESULTS.
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   PR
   APPV
   TOTSOP

5. HOW MANY NATION-STATE BORDERS DUE TO WAR/FORCE

   VS CONSENT OF REGIMES ON BOTH SIDES OF BORDERS ???

   OLDEST KNOWN NATION-STATE BORDER IS WHERE ???

   HOW MANY 2024 INVADERS IGNORING ANY NATION-STATE BORDERS ???

6. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pakistan-military-used-every-trick-080625782.html

   NOTE PIC OF BALLOTS WITH SYMBOLS/LOGOS

7. WHICH *RELIGIOUS* NATION HAS THE MOST/LEAST ACTUAL REPORTED RESULTS ???

   CATHOLIC
   PROTESTANT
   JEWISH
   MUSLIM
   ETC

8. What do you expect from a bunch of Pakis?

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