2/3rd Majority During the ongoing PANAMA hearings by the SC, many a stalwart of the PML (N) leadership has hinted at going to the Awaami Court who they claim had returned MNS with 2/3 majority. Just to be sure, I dug up some of the old newspapers and found the following: Party Total votes bagged (May 12, 1pm) PML-N 9,781,703 PTI 3,633,060 PPP 3,381,223 MQM 2,108,360 PML-Q 834,572 PML-F 610,906 JUI-F 278,636 JI 91,668 The total number of the registered voters for the 2013 election was 86,194,802 Thus PML (N) polled 9,781,703 / 86,194,802 X 100 = 11.35 per cent which is not even simple 51% majority what to talk of 2/3rd majority. It is as simple as that out of 86,194,802 registered voters a very hefty number of 76,413,099 voters did not vote for it. Do they have any moral justification of going to them for the final decision? Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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