Nawaz most popular leader: survey
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has emerged as the most popular leader followed by his younger brother and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and arch political rival and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, a survey said.
According to the survey carried out by the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (Pildat), Nawaz Sharif remained ahead with an approval rating of 75 per cent and his brother at 72 per cent. The PTI chief could generate an approval rating of 49 per cent to emerge as the most popular leader after the Sharif brothers.
Other national political leaders that the poll included had relatively lower ratings.
MQM chief Altaf Hussain emerged as the least popular leader in Pakistan with an approval rating of 13 per cent. PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain also earned a substantially lower rating at 19 per cent, ANP president Asfandyar Wali at 18 per cent and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari 27 per cent.
The results have been released from a two-part survey covering separately the quality of governance and democracy.
The survey was first conducted upon the completion of the first year of the national and provincial assemblies and the government in office in May 2014.
The nationwide poll was conducted again from June 2 to 12, 2015, following the completion of the second year of the assemblies and the government.
The respondents for the survey included 3,231 citizens from rural and urban areas from all the four provinces, including various age, income, education and language groups of the population.
As many as 59 per cent of the respondents believed that the elections 2013 were somewhat to completely transparent and fair.
On the contrast, 30 per cent of them saw the polls as somewhat to completely rigged. For the democracy survey conducted at the end of the first year of the elected government, 53 per cent of the respondents believed that the 2013 election were completely to somewhat transparent and fair and 37 per cent thought they were somewhat to completely rigged.
Published in Dawn, October 20th , 2015
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Oct 20, 2015 09:16am
"Good for you", Pakistanis.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:22am
Wow, we deserve all this mismanagement and corruption.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:23am
Yes no doubt he is most famous leader not in Pak rather in the world. Strange public and strange survey result...
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Oct 20, 2015 09:23am
He was elected prime minister. Someone must like him. Others see he is steering Pakistan in the right direction. He will always have his detractors. That's politics.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:26am
NS would not be happy with 75% rating...he should be given 175% and PILDAT is dubious enough to do it.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:28am
The survey is rigged ...reconduct it with UN supervision
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Oct 20, 2015 09:28am
From the population of about 191,710,000 only about 3000 people surveyed? that shows the ignorance on the part of the surveyors.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:28am
What a Joke....
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Oct 20, 2015 09:33am
This survey was conducted by Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (Pildat). What else could you expect. Corruption is blooming in each and every dept of Pakistan.
We reject this survey.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:37am
Mian Nawaz Sharif knows how to rule the hearts and minds of the people. We are with the lion. Taking Pakistan to new heights
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Oct 20, 2015 09:42am
Once upon a time 98% of population voted to retain Musharraf as well. This survey from a govt organization has a conflict of interest.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:44am
REALLY !!!
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Oct 20, 2015 09:44am
Must have been carried out by the well wishers of the PM.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:46am
Rigged or Not Rigged...in both cases this nation deserves such surveys and leaders...by the way what was the data size of this so called Survey.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:49am
Time to swallow the bitter truth. There is a difference between those who dance and wave banners for a free meal or a few hundred rupees and those who seriously vote and care for the country. What Nawaz Sharif has done more for this country in 2 years then those who have ruled for the last 15 years. Just keep going please. Do not relax. As for the two "Brown Shab's" Imran and Sarwar. This is not UK where you lived your lives. If you had not been an obstacle PML-N would have achieved more.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:49am
Looks like he would be voted in power again in 2018.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:53am
And thus survey was conducted in villages of Punjab. Pildat serving Nawaz very well.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:58am
PILDAT always comes to rescue of Sharifs whenever they find themselves in troubled waters. Timing couldn't have been better, Sharifs doing poorly in bye elections, internal party rifts & much anticipated rise in prices of gas & petrol. To top it all, people getting disillusioned about mega projects. No wonder a positive survey at this stage would go a long way in keeping things under control. Job well done, PILDAT.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:59am
Mian Sahib, Keep doing good things and people will elect you in 2018 as well. Don't worry about the distractors and whingers, what else can you expect from them ! Under your leadership Pakistan is back on track !
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Oct 20, 2015 10:00am
Joke of the century!
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Oct 20, 2015 10:02am
joke of the day
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Oct 20, 2015 10:07am
Who will be believe this? Joke of the century
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Oct 20, 2015 10:15am
Of course! But IK is too arrogant to acknowledge that.
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Oct 20, 2015 10:15am
A joke of the century. Bribe and earn popularity portfolio.
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Oct 20, 2015 10:17am
Haha..Planted survey as usual
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Oct 20, 2015 10:19am
should one laugh or cry !!!!
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Oct 20, 2015 10:19am
After the Model Town killings, Nandi Poor failure, Fuel Crisis, King like living of our rulers and increased borrowing from IMF... poor Pakistanis did not learn a lesson and will never learn anything.
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Oct 20, 2015 10:21am
hahahahaa...Pildat Survey...very funny.
Pildat: will you please mention the Sampling & Cost of the so called Survey...????????
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Oct 20, 2015 10:22am
NS popular!!!!!??????.... it is a clear cut indication what kind of people we have in the country....Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
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Oct 20, 2015 10:24am
really?
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Oct 20, 2015 10:24am
All these surveys about 2013 elections, and bi elections more or less turns out to be right, statistical sampling has an established history of prediticion, but some people live in their Utopias and bubbles, good for them, for their information Pakistan is more than 1.5 million face book fans,
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Oct 20, 2015 10:28am
Do you know these surveys or in fact just for arguments sake anything can be purchased in Pakistan, manipulated, altered, changed and if nothing works make it happen forcefully, so much for the survey!!!
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Oct 20, 2015 10:32am
Great deal, I think the people of Pakistan deserves such leader having their business in foreign and settle in foreign countries on Pakistani tax money, "you will have the leader as you are".
Everything is crystal clear and then they are expecting the good from Sharif Brothers and Asif Zardari.
Who is not aware of Sharif Brothers having business in UK and India?
Who is not aware of Asif Zardari why left Pakistan and living outside and not coming back?
Why MQM leader is not coming back to Pakistan, from where he is earing the money?
Why we are comparing bad with
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Oct 20, 2015 10:35am
What a Joke!!!
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Oct 20, 2015 10:35am
MP Nawaz Sharif need to be congratulated for his approval rateing, I hope his government keeps serving the people of Pakistan honestly and improve their economical condition and continue working with our Armed Forces to eliminate the curse of terrorism from our country.
I believe if we focus on, development and well being of people we can achieve anything we set our minds on. Please govern honestly, this nation has suffered more than her share of misery. This nation is one of the most resilient nation on earth, no nation had as many obstacles as Pakistani, but yet we keep moving forward, just imagine if we have an honest, capable and dedicated leadership, I am sure we can surpass many nations around us.
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Oct 20, 2015 10:37am
Well, Imran Khan's aggression and sticking to certain unnecessary things for too long caused a decrease in his popularity, and btw he must focus on issues of the rural people rather than sticking to an all affluent policy.
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Oct 20, 2015 10:37am
The selection of sample appears to be biased. PILDAT is in fact pill dot.
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Oct 20, 2015 10:40am
75% , how come it is possible with his party having only 48% seats , how did 27% out of the rest 52% become his lovers despite his policies not being too good for all these years. We must scrutinize the sample , techniques and the questions used.
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Oct 20, 2015 10:47am
Dhandli in Survey Also ;)
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Oct 20, 2015 10:51am
What? NS most popular leader? What? Say again?
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Oct 20, 2015 10:55am
My leader ...humble man..
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Oct 20, 2015 11:03am
@Ali Shah new heights in corruption & lawlessness, what a joke..
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Oct 20, 2015 11:06am
I as Pakistani condemn these one sided corrupt surveys
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Oct 20, 2015 11:12am
All surveys from various organizations before 2008 GE have reported that PMLN is by enlarge the most popular party but critics (like in this forum) always called them flawed.
2013 GE, LG POlls, All by elections & all surveys points the same but still the critics dont wanted to face the truth.
Common Guys, Plz talk to the people on streets,,,, PMLN & NS/SS are getting popular day by day....
Either its CPEC/reduction in load shedding/ USD exchange rate/ Fuel prices/infrastructure/ Peace in KHI & rest of the country or whatsoever could be the reasons but they are getting positive ratings from all walks of life.
Read the survey plz, He is getting highest rating from the Higher income class where IK was polpular a couple of years back.
Like it or not but PMLN is pretty much set to retain gov in 2018 GE.
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Oct 20, 2015 11:13am
@Pakistani only by saying that these are corrupt surveys is not enough one should talk about fact and figures for example 75% rating in Pakistan means approval ratings of 120% in Lahore to cover the gap in other provinces, where as the recent election only showed about 3% difference between both parties.
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Oct 20, 2015 11:18am
How unfortunate we Pakistanis are to have leaders like Zardari and Nawaz. What makes them the most popular THE CORRUPTION .
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Oct 20, 2015 11:27am
Everything not in favour of PTI is rigged. Any article published anywhere in the world against PTI is paid for by PML/PPP. Even if Khan sahib accidentally criticises himself he must have been drugged by PML/PPP cronies.
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Oct 20, 2015 11:27am
I am most popular leader in my house.
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Oct 20, 2015 11:30am
BTW Who is the chief of Pildat?
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Oct 20, 2015 11:36am
biased survey
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Oct 20, 2015 11:38am
as an india I am happy, a man of peace is popular
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Oct 20, 2015 11:41am
It is a joke on the nation !
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Oct 20, 2015 11:41am
@Waseq learn statistics
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Oct 20, 2015 11:46am
Surveys don't matter. Pakistani people don't elect same government twice. Guys, let PML -N paid trolls be happy for the moment.
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Oct 20, 2015 11:47am
Joke of the day. Thanks for making me laugh Dawn. I really needed that.
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Oct 20, 2015 11:47am
It depends on why one is popular! And in this case, for all the wrong reasons, I guess!
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Oct 20, 2015 11:50am
Joke of the year
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Oct 20, 2015 11:51am
Yes, the same PILDAT that showed 37%PMLN and 11%PTI for Lahore elections but PMLN lost PP 147 and won NA 122 only with 2400 votes. Very credible, PILDAT!
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Oct 20, 2015 11:54am
wow.. just wow...
These institutions are hell bent on loosing their own credibility.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:01pm
I am fully disappointed on the Management of different state departments like NADRA, PTCL. etc
In NADRA, I submitted my ID-Card from abroad two years ago. I am still waiting for my card. I tried thousand times on the given Telephone numbers in NADRA but the Telephones are either already busy or set to busy after call. No body is picking calls to help people. On their website, they have entered fully wrong information regarding my ID-Card. This is story of NADRA.
Now Story of PTCL in my city Mandibahauddin: We started small business there and we registered 4 new Telephone numbers along with Internet. Since more than a year, Telephone main lines are not working. We registered almost everyday complaints as well as we went there personally. No body is helping us. I am so much frustrated on the performance of this goverment. Nothing is working properly.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:09pm
Disagree with this survey, how 3،231 citizens can present the views of whole nation??? here we even not know about the areas where this survey has conducted??? Totally biased and baseless exertion.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:11pm
Just kidding.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:12pm
Where should I hit my head?
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Oct 20, 2015 12:15pm
@ig PILDAT has nothing to do with government Sherlock
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Oct 20, 2015 12:18pm
Is the survey also rigged like the election?
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Oct 20, 2015 12:18pm
after this pathetic performance of pmln if pm is most popular is there anything wrong with us or is it the survey conducted only on 3000 people out of 200 millon is wrong.....
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Oct 20, 2015 12:19pm
what ever this experienced team of pmln is doing, nothing is going in the right direction & still pm most popular ....this is the biggest joke.....:)
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Oct 20, 2015 12:21pm
I am not a PTI supporter but a 75% approval rating of NS only show the lack of any credibility of this organization and survey. If he has 75% approval rating the election results in Lahore and Okara don't reflect that. Heck he probably doesn't even have 75% approval rating in his own cabinet!!!
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Oct 20, 2015 12:25pm
NS is a very good politician, but we will keep looking for the excellent and some people will keep looking for the perfect that doesn't exist. The survey shows almost the the similar ratio of likes people around me have for politicians. On a separate note, I observed that hate for NS is also very strong and this is the sign of a great leader if I look at the history of other big leaders like Bhutto, Lincoln, Quiadiazam and so on. Love and hate were stronger for these people regardless of their individual differences.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:31pm
Cries from PTI, and that is stuff it is . Blame and abuse everybody and even respectable PILDT.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:37pm
strange, conduct another survey and publish the report provinces wise, Only 3,231 citizens from all the four provinces do not show real picture of popularity.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:52pm
@Ayaz Munir Survey questions are not designed to be mutually exclusive. It can simply ask for rating different leaders on a scale of 1 to 5 or just reorder the leaders names as per the responders likes. Moreover, those objecting sample size are also unaware of sampling practices. Some margin of error is there, which every good researcher try to minimize.
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Oct 20, 2015 12:53pm
No doubt Nawaz Sharif is an experienced leader having chaired the PM seat for the third time but the current popularity as envisioned is not because of some extra ordinary leadership shown by NS, it is mostly because of failure of Imran Khan to prove his points. Undoubtedly PTI's rhetoric against PMLN has done the magic for NS
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Oct 20, 2015 12:55pm
@KaKa 3000 survey size in a population of almost 20 crore. Seems a joke.
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Oct 20, 2015 01:09pm
@Waseq. It was in early 1940s when the USA joined WWII. She found that far more young men were recruited under the compulsory recruitment than were expected on the 1940 census. Statisticians then realised that a full census is not always accurate. Since then it is generally accepted that a statistically chosen sample of a population gives more accurate results. The reason is that with such a sample the extent of 'error' is 'known' whereas with the full population it is not known because NO error is expected. Regrettably, some surveyors do not mention this error.
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Oct 20, 2015 01:12pm
The rating of the popular leadership would be judged and be evaluated by his out put working performance towards improvements and developments in all social and economic sectors. An ideal successful Leadership has always broad political vision who could translate his political wisdom by his abilities transparently into the vision of others for the welfare of the state and for its people .
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Oct 20, 2015 01:21pm
If this is really what the masses think, than they deserve what is being meted out to them, they have no one else but themselves to blame for their miserable state.
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Oct 20, 2015 01:23pm
Seriously?
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Oct 20, 2015 01:28pm
...And i am damn sure the survey must be conducted the way Mr Shareef wins the election. who cares ?
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Oct 20, 2015 01:30pm
Whether Zardari, or Nawaz, we Indians are happy.
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Oct 20, 2015 01:31pm
The PM popularity will be rated and judged by his work performance. if he is steering Pakistan in the right direction by his visionary leadership.
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Oct 20, 2015 01:37pm
The most popular leader in Pakistan a poor third is unbelievable. Imran should sit on dharna for this rigged survey as people are being misled by Sharif's.
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Oct 20, 2015 01:38pm
I think Nawaz has done lesser to enhance his popularity than Imran Khan has done for him.
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Oct 20, 2015 01:52pm
Bogus Survey. Absolutely misleading.
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Oct 20, 2015 02:28pm
@khanm .You have siad the right words.Agree with you fully
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Oct 20, 2015 02:33pm
This survey is joke of the day.
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Oct 20, 2015 02:35pm
These random surveys remind me of my random selection for security screening every time I travel through airports in US and Europe.
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Oct 20, 2015 02:43pm
You deserve incompetent leaders!!!!! Enjoy
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Oct 20, 2015 02:46pm
Another national "institution" working for the Sharifs and Zardaris!
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Oct 20, 2015 02:49pm
This is hard to swallow even by our 'shallow' Pakistani standards!
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Oct 20, 2015 02:52pm
3231 number of persons no whole nation, (
The respondents for the survey included 3,231 citizens from rural and urban areas from all the four provinces, including various age, income, education and language groups of the population.)
FAIL
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Oct 20, 2015 03:02pm
Exchequer money at work.
What a joke.
How about model town killings?
How about rigging proved by respective commissions?
How about loading shedding?
How about corruption?
List goes on...
Do you think, folks are stupid
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Oct 20, 2015 03:06pm
Yes and i am the president of unites states of america !
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Oct 20, 2015 03:15pm
Intense stuff
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Oct 20, 2015 03:18pm
@Scary I dont know about which party you are talking but there is a general consensus, even among the PML(N) voters, that their majority consists of voters who vote them for a "free meal or a few hundred rupees".
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Oct 20, 2015 03:24pm
I am with NS
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Oct 20, 2015 03:24pm
This survey was conducted by Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (Pildat). What else could you expect. Corruption is blooming in each and every dept of Pakistan. We reject this survey.
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Oct 20, 2015 03:39pm
75% of 3,231 citizens from rural and urban areas from all the four provinces think that nawaz rocks! wow! :p
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Oct 20, 2015 04:06pm
No Electricity, no gas, no jobs, no justice, no clean drinking water, no health facilities, no rule of law & most expensive huge loans to show reserves are at the record levels.... kasur like incidents everyday ..... lavish spending's by all & sundry..... surveys show economy going down..... but according to PILDAT our PM is the man & most popular leader..... what can we say... wordless...
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Oct 20, 2015 04:10pm
as always PTI will say - "Dhandhli ho gaye"
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Oct 20, 2015 04:15pm
Off course every thing is rigged unless Imran Khan comes on top
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Oct 20, 2015 05:05pm
@Usman NAB cases were not prepared by Imran Khan.... its mr pm partner mr zardari & other institutions ..... how come a man possessing billions infact trillions pay only 5000 in taxes.... how come the country going down & our democrat's fortunes are multiplying like stars.....
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Oct 20, 2015 06:50pm
Dharna against this survey, anyone?
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Oct 20, 2015 07:12pm
Is this survey based on random sampling or selected sampling ?
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Oct 20, 2015 07:22pm
If NSis so popular, why doesn't he face public like IK ? The survey was conducted by corrupt govt officials and was given to corrupt govt officials . Who are they fooling!!!
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Oct 20, 2015 07:37pm
Where and how the survey carried out and by whom? trust me no one asked from me and no one came into our area, so how the survey was carried out?
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Oct 20, 2015 07:42pm
Well, I do not know about Pakistanis, but Indians do like him.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:38pm
Minister word is something which coincides with someone who is managing, ironing out obstacles and administering his Ministry's scope of projects. I am not sure if PM Cabinet Ministers have mistakenly read the word "Mistress" instead of "Minister" and acting as such..... always looking after his personal clothing, watch, hair, shoe shining, hair oil, combing, holding his coat/tie/waist coat and etc etc... sounds sarcastic but trust me one of their ministers in a recent personal gathering said he is feeling like a "mistress" as PM advised him to look around for his matching tie in UK visit.... sooner all will come to see a possible vid on this as well.
if so many people are taking care of PM upto such an extent, indeed he is most popular leader in country may even eclipsing the founder of the country as well.
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Oct 21, 2015 02:20am
@Scary "Time to swallow the bitter truth."
Bitter truth is that the survey was conducted by a government owned institution. In my opinion this very fact makes the findings doubtful.
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Oct 21, 2015 05:34am
Incredible! . The pollster forgot to rate the smartest &alert man of Pakistan. Saien Qaim Ali Sah.
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Oct 21, 2015 07:47am
Fabricated.
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Oct 22, 2015 02:07am
Let's be transparent here and not resort to name-calling
Things Nawaz Sharif has done past two years:
-Zarb e azb significantly reduced TTP presence
-Continues to clear Karachi from violence
-Began initial CPEC projects such as Quaid Solar park and inaugurated many more
-Continues to build infrastructure in Gwadar
-Trying to reach settlement with Baloch separatists
-Began construction at KANUPP reactors in Karachi
-Substantially increased pakistan's forex reserves
I used to support IK but all he is, is a washed up blowhard who has one issue and not much else. For me, actions speak louder than words!
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