Why pti lost

Experience the heat that a poor man does," the minister told Shahbaz. The PML-N emerged as the largest party in Punjab by winning 51 of the wards in the province, according to the unofficial results of the cantonment board elections. Independent candidates emerged victorious on 32 seats in the province. Jamaat-e-Islami, meanwhile, managed to secure two seats in the province, while PPP failed to win even a single seat across the province.

How could these elders allow the change to come about in this wretched country? Good luck Pakistan! Imran Abbasi.

Corruption at the ballot box cannot be conveniently ignored when analysing the elections. I second Omar that PTI did miss out on a large village vote bank.

No party will ever win just by focusing primarily on a single demographic. Understanding the entire demographic and coining a punchline for each segment of the society is the old fashioned 'politics' that works. Ha ha ha!! Good scoff!!!!! A known devil!!!!!!! Very apt label. Fareed Khan. I think writer is pro N. He fails to mention rigging at all and seems to be a member of inner workings of N league.

Just because he covers TIME does not make him all wise and neutral. Well well Let us not forget Being a naive and gullible Pakistani as i am let me say Pakistan will regain its independence from US slaves one day. PTI or anybody else Overseas Pakistani. You also forgot: - Bullet Train - Airport in Abbotabad.

Spot on analysis. And the same crying of foul play even here in comments by PTI's arm-chair, urban-ittes without sensibly pondering and reflecting on what, not only the writer of this article, but the entire world is saying.

With this attitude, I don't think PTI can even survive till the next elections!! Alam Zeb Khan. I am not questioning intelligence of the people of Punjab and Sindh in particular but people cast their vote based on green pastures which are no close to realities.

People thinks sharif brothers have some magic to bring prosperity to the country. MY Allah give wisdom to the people of Punjab and Sindh.

They have no right to come out and protest in next 5 years. Here is another drawing room article, unaware of ground realities and why so many of PTI voters were disappointed. Adil Jadoon. We are happy and never hoped to form the govenment. We will do even better next time. You didnt have to right a whole article about this. The answer is very very very simple. The elections were rigged.

The writer should also remember that this numerically limited urban middle class is also educated and the word of goodness and understanding will InshAllah spread and we all will be the beacons of that change.

What the PML-N did well was to pay off the electables. What we are good at doing as a nation is to stand behind the wrong because it is easy. Its easy to side with status quo and much harder to fight it. The truth is that PML-N is a punjabi party and that is all they won. Also if the ECP was impartial and there was accountability of anyone in this nation the whole world would have seen a much different picture.

What the PTI is doing is what it has always promised to do. Fight corruption and injustice. This whole election drama was nothing but that as we all saw.

And only time will tell if the ones who won the battel will also win the war. Just because PTI won doesnt mean it should stop supporting the truth. Which is the the elections were rigged and there has been no accountability of that. I think PTI have dared to do something which other parties would do only in dreams. He promised people a dignified way to live and be recognized all over the world. He didnt offer people visas on their green passports. Again what nonsense.

Right now a green passport means Terrorist, Jehadi, illegal immigrant you name it. Point well taken.. Murad Moosa Khan. Dear Mr. Warraich- in your opinion, what was the extent of rigging in the elections? Moiz Shaikh. I guess shld hv discussed abt riiging too in the article..

I m not intrested in such youth??? This is an objective analysis. But, as usual, pseudo-intellectual trolls of PTI will Fail to digest it.

Salma Khan. Imran has always said that if PTI doesn't win, they'll sit in the opposition. Therefore, it's not the loss that bothers IK, but the 'broad-daylight theft" of peoples' votes is what outrages him and me. Only truth can seed a true democracy! Tusnami was not meant to swamp the opponents. Please make this correction. The intra party elections should have happened after the elections. The second factor that reduced the chances of winning higher number of seats than its present performance was his fall from the HOIST, PERIOD He could have inspired a large number of voters during the last 3 or 4 days of campaigning.

Written by someone who neither knows teh ground reality nor has a clue. Journalistic integrity is dead. Abdullah Hussain. Its very simple, TI lost because the results were written even before the polls were held. This was a fabricated election produced according to the approved shop drawing.

No blame on IK or TI. Abid Shah Mashwani. In other words, the authors tried to conclude that in Pakistan dishonesty and lack of vision of leader work more than honesty and vision. Where instead of providing education, health and clean water, you can make false promises of metro bus in every city, bullet train between Peshawar and Karachi, motor way to Mansehra and end of load shedding in 6 months, and people vote for you.

Then two weeks later you can tell them Khazana Khalee hey and all these promises were "jazbatee election speeches". Then squeez every drop of blood from poor voters for next 3 years before you once again do few showpiece projects in last two years, and fool people once again. Mr Waraich you know the reasons why Imran lost? Polls are important according to Omar which PTI dismissed. Media time is not important, according to Omar which PTI considered its best indicator to win, Omar is also Omar is dismissing importance of rallies, 50 thousand in rally do not represent as sample for a constituency with , voters.

As an example: Obama, unlike IK, took direction according to the polls at the county level. He knew ahead of time, even the counties he was going to win.

Obama's team made investments at county level according to the polling date. Imad Khan. This by a party that only had 1 seat back in These are not the traits of a losing party, but a party on the rise and its only going to get better from here on. So watch out Pakistan, PTI has come and its here to stay. You must be PML-N supporter coz they were not interested in the youth until IK showed his strength, and now that they have got the votes, they will forget about the youth as usual.

Also, NS was successful in putting the entire blame of their failure to provide electricity on the Federal government. Public did not care to know the entire truth. IK's effort to make the pubic realize the level of corruption, but he failed. Do you not think that because they were unable to hold jalsas as freely as PTI and PML N that this might also have had some effect on the numbers? What is really strange is that I have not heard any comment from Khan Sahib condemning the terrorists that threaten Pakistanis.

Sore losers! Get over it. Venture out of the luxury of your comfortable homes Mustafa Razavi. PTI may not have swept but winning only 28 seats is not digestable. Just for record sack, I am not a voter of either party. Certainly Imran Khan is a better man, may be the only man. At least in Punjab, anyone with real hair is a youth. Yes Waraich sb should have written about rigging. No such support in Punjab though. MQM threatened ppl and showed up at the polling station after Jammat walked away and start stamping, in the future if you write an article, please include those factors as well.

Don't be afraid from MQM. Warriach, I don't know who let you publish this article, where you have completely missed the boat. The leaders of the two parties are corrupt to the bone. As you can see now they have shook hands and have decided for the betterment of Pakistan. People like yourself haven't learned in 60 plus years from your mistakes. How will you Pakistanis move forward if you keep bringing same old thugs into power.

It is quite frustrating for me even when I live abroad I don't know how you guys are putting up with all that mess in the country.

Nawaz had only developed Lahore to some extent more so his area where he visits but what about rest of Pakistan. He used to be in a mediocre house now he is in a palace.

Same with Zardari. Don't you get it, can't you see. Your ego must be bigger than ever that Nawaz won, but in reality you have lost he bags fortune in his bank account while you and other Pakistanis try to fight it out with power issues, security issues, inflation etc. You still have to struggle to put food on your table.

You have again been robbed of you next 5 years. One has to be young at heart, that's all that matter. It is so hard for me to believe that how can you guys test the same people over and over again and expect the different results as Einstein said.

Even the Hadith said that momin ek surakh say bar bar nahi dasa jata. Every Pakistani's goal should be to make Pakistan better and support those who can lead the people toward the greater success for the country. For the country's sake, people should realize that old parties i. So their years of experience have no value. For the sake of Pakistan, PTI should have been trusted by the people since it was never tested before and they have an intent to work for the country regardless of their experience.

Quaid-e-Azam, had no experience but he had the intent and will and he was able to make the impossible, possible. PTI would have not lost this bad if free and fair election were happened. The above article is definitely bias. May 29, am. Bottom line is we PTI lost it big this time. We can debate the reasons all night long. The thing to do at this time is to pick up and move forward with lesson learned Analyst are going to give their opinion because they have to, they get paid for that.

We have to regroup and figure out who gave bad advice and kick them out of the party and make it a real youth party. This was the first real election for the party and we did really well in being a second biggest party of the country.

Even if there are it should be investigated and dealt with. Can you say the same? How about investigate via thumbprints? The mistake PTI made was in a " foolish army"? Is he implying PML-N voters voted with their brains? Or that PTI voters don't want lights and fans that work? Is this journalism? What data does he have to support ANY of this.?

I can do better than that! My unscientific speculation as to why PTI lost is that Pakistanis either suffered from stupefying amnesia and have forgotten how decades of corruption and mismanagement has resulted in the lack of electricity etc OR they voted simply by ethnicity.

Yes and rigging did make a difference. Instead of spewing out patronizing meaningless articles do some real investigative journalism. The media had glamourised IK and he himself showed some dreams to the youth which were too much unrealistic. The relatively well-off youth, being emotional, were fancied by his promises. They developed so much blind faith in the victory which media had created hype about and PTI had promised for, that now it is hard for them to digest the unexpected results.

I wondered how could a short-tempered man and an unexperienced politician like IK drive Pakistan out of the grave challenges it is facing today? His political immaturity is very much reflected from his unrealistic promises like eliminating corruption, forcing America to stop launching drones etc, ALL in 90 DAYS.

Most of the youth, i guess, were blindly after the PTI glamour just to show themselves to be modern and revolutionary beings. I totally disagree with the author that jalsas have little effect. In fact jalsas are extremely important because what is said and how it is said resonates in most households, at least the ones that have access to TVs.

Nawaz Sharif clearly had the advantage over Imran Khan in oratory. For example he said all the right things that mattered to common folk; motorway from Karachi to Peshawar, better public transportation including fixing of PIA and Railways, reduction in load shedding, end to corruption, reduced tension with India, and most importantly, jobs for the unemployed and for recent or soon to be graduates.

He also used Shahbaz Sharif's schemes to his advantage. While Imran Khan kept on talking about higher ideals and goals such as justice for all, end to corruption and nepotism, taxation, dialogue with the Taliban, and of course he hurled a lot of negative statements at Nawaz Sharif which Sharif wisely did not respond to in person or through his brother but rather through his subordinates.

What Imran Khan needs is a team of good speech writers and advisors who understand how to ignite the emotions of the majority of Pakistanis. The difference between Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan prior to the elections was that Sharif was much better in playing with the peoples emotions by putting the burden of serving Pakistan on himself, his brother, and his party, while Imran Khan tended to put the burden on the people of Pakistan.

For example, Nawaz Sharif told Pakistan that he is going to give it a motorway and bullet trains from Karachi to Peshawar and ask nothing in return.

Even though we know the chance of that happening in the next 5 years is very slim, we still liked it. However, Imran Khan's response was that when Pakistan changes for the better, obviously through the hard work of the common man, these things would automatically become a reality. Farkhanda what about the anti PTI pseudo intellectuals - act like a kabutar and say there was no rigging.. Very simplistic view of election.

Author completely ignored the fact that rigging did happened on a massive scale. So Mr. Omar Waraich, your jouranlistic views are flawed are at best and propaganda at worst. By the way, im an outsider and did not particulary support any party. Secondly, Elections rigging cannot take place in urban areas of the cities due to too much exposure.

PML-N has won fair and square, accept it. Omar Waraich: Your article sounds delusional. Do you remember, rigging? Rigging or no rigging, if anything, this election revalidated that education was the difference. It's a fact that majority of the country is uneducated and I dare say that the majority of this majority sided with PML-N.

It takes an educated person to know better and the people who sided with PTI did know better. Darn right that this statement helps me sleep better and I could go on and on, so I will. The article confirms that the key difference between PML-N and PTI is that the strategy of the latter was to fix the country while the former's strategy was to simply win read fix the elections.

PTI is quite content with the mandate it got. And yes, it has every right to register its protest for the 25 seats where the results were tampered with. Haris Ali. PTI is still in a developing stage and what they achieved is by far a success in my opinion.

Yes everyone was being optimistic seeing how mercurial are nation can be at times, people thought that maybe Imran Khan's charisma and determination might make the difference in him securing a major hold in the assembly. An achievement for them is that they have finally established their political hold in the country and shown that they are not to be dealt lightly with.

PML-N may have won the elections but the responsibility they've taken up is by far one of the most difficult ones to handle. If they are not able to stabilise the country establish basic necessities such as electricity and reduce the inflation that spread all the over the nation they will be in the same state as PPP was in this election.

One can only pray and hope for the best. So PTI shud keep free and fair elections in their agenda on top priority as Tahir ul Qadri said b4 elections Karachi election gun point situation has a history of 2 decades so how can PTI expect that it will go in ideal situation in year Why they did not demanded army inside polling stations??

Now Karachi agitation shud not be spread all over Pakistan. Karachi situation is exceptional due to criminal element which does not exist in other areas. For other areas PTI shud bring evidences to ECP instead of portraying whole election as rigged and putting allegations on all other parties without any proof. Paki First. Dawn some how cant swallow the successes of PTI. I think there is a lot to admire on their achievement rather than criticize in such a pathetic way.

Keep on publishing these articles and you will keep on loosing your credibility in my eyes. Mukhi bano. IK won the Nation and Nawaz won the election by rigging. They r pathans Agree totally! The flood reference in the fifth paragraph is too juvenile. In fact I could use the same word for the rest of the article, though it does have some redeeming features.

People are not happy with PTI wait until One has to understand, inflation at present is worldwide. Here in uk fuel prices are very high. Which in turn triggers other prices. IK is on right track. It's a no brainer Mr. The Emperor has no clue how much he is hated for his broken promises.

F Nawaz. Siding with the N-league is more lucrative. Ahmad, Everyone, this is "Ahmad". He says he's a Pakistani and a Muslim. Kindly believe him and ignore the sad tone. Victim of 18th Amendment. Don't worry Mr. Prime Minister, in next election, shock is awaiting for you in Karachi as well.

The way you have conveniently ignored Karachi and provided open field to PPP to loot and plunder the resources of Karachi has disappointed your voters in this city. Just wait and see what happens to you in Karachi also. A Troll From Nowhere. The poor economic performance of your incompetent government has disappointed your voters very badly. Duality of Singularity. The way prices hike is happening in this country, it has made people choke to death. More shocking results will follow.

Faineant Soldier. Be ready for more annoying results. He should just fire himself out of his job. Cant believe he does not know that he is flopping badly! Rahim, "Covid mishandling, faltering economy, skyrocketing prices..

Why annoyed? Buzdar is doing zero work,roads of punjab are getting worst, no cleanliness plus inflation.. PMLN not crying foul now? Because of his competent team in Punjab. Shahid Mahmood. He is naive if he doesn't understand why he lost. He is lucky that some people still think that there is no other choice. Bye bye Pakistan Tehreek Inflation. Karachi and lahore party heads needed to be kicked out for their miserable leadership.

Erum Aziz. Lala ji, people full their stomach not with roads, infrastructures, but with food. PTI isn't controling food prices. Mr Usman is ruling Punjab government, he must control food prices. Punjab government must arange "sasta bazars" near to Kachi Abadies for poor people and provide ediable stuff at "no profit no loss" base. I told you "inflation" could end PTI era. So please be very careful. Opposition is using inflation.

IK is a bit delusional. People around him are not telling him the story. He is good for nothing. Common man in Punjab is starving and Buzdar is least bothered.

Fastrack, but Punjab has rejected IK. Only because of Buzdar who has brought an expensive living for poor which theycan't afford. Dr Dummy. More to come, the day you supported Taliban your downfall started.

Abbas Mehr. Ahmad, Agreed. And we can also see lots of Governance issues, growing civic issues in main cities where there used to be successful working models of waste management, water and sewerage, road and infrastructure maintenance and a growth oriented focus. If at all there were elements of corruption, they should have been addressed rather than putting the whole asset base to worthless situation.

No reforms in any manner as IK used to promise.