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ISLAMABAD: When internal democracy among the political parties in parliament is compared, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) comes in last and Jamaat-i-Islami tops the chart, according to an assessment carried out by the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (Pildat).
However, according to the assessment report if JIs restricted system of membership and internal election excludes it from the comparison, PTI emerges as the party with the best internal democracy.
The report lists the parties in descending order and gives them scores in percentage. At the top is Jamaat-i-Islami with a score of 56 per cent followed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf at 49 per cent, Awami National Party at 46 per cent, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazlur Rehman (JUI-F) and the National Party both get scores of 43 per cent, Muttahida Qaumi Movement is at 42 per cent, Pakistan Peoples Partys score is 34 per cent and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz comes in last with a score of 32 per cent.
Journalist Mujibur Rehman Shami, a member of the Pildat committee which assessed the constitutions and internal activities of the eight parties, noted that most of the political parties do not even have a list of their members.
This is the reason the party which made Pakistan has fragmented into groups, he said at the launch of the Pildat report here on Tuesday.
Most parties spend millions in contesting elections but bank accounts do not show matching amounts. We cannot afford political parties receiving funds from unknown sources, he added, advising them not to emulate the budgets of traders unions and keep proper accounts.
PTI Member of National Assembly (MNA) Arif Alvi found it encouraging that his party scored high in the internal democracy assessment.
We held elections of PTI for overseas Pakistanis in 2006 and decided to introduce electronic mail to cast vote. Then in Pakistan we opened membership through phone and around 3.5 million people registered. Another four million were registered manually, he said.
We held elections through mobile phones but had to form a commission under retired Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed to look into complaints of manipulation, he said.
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Hong Kong's pro-democracy protest camps may have been swept away but one man has recreated a rally site as an Occupy hotel -- where guests now pay to spend the night in a tent. Set up in a small apartment in the Causeway Bay shopping district, which was previously home to one of three protest camps, visitors pay HK$100 to stay in one of two small tents surrounded by protest memorabilia. The walls are draped with pro-democracy banners, and a cardboard cutout of Chinese President Xi Jinping holding a yellow umbrella -- the symbol of the pro-democracy movement -- dominates the room. When nature calls, guests will find the face of the city's embattled leader Leung Chun-ying printed on the toilet paper. "I want people who missed out on the chance to 'occupy' because they were too busy or they were in another country to come in and stay in the tents,'' said Stephen Thompson, 50, a British freelance writer who has lived in Hong Kong for eight years. "When it finished I didn't want it to end,'' added Thompson, who calls his 'hotel' the "Umbrella Revolution Occupation Experience''. "It (the umbrella movement) was an achievement in itself, whether or not universal suffrage was achieved.'' Protesters occupied stretches of some of Hong Kong's main highways for more than two months from September 28, calling for free leadership elections after China said candidates for chief executive in 2017 would first be vetted by a loyalist committee. Hundreds of tents sprawled across major roads as the protest sites became entrenched camps complete with supply stalls, study areas and artwork. Causeway Bay was the last remaining site to be cleared last week. "People like to be reminded of their dreams and ideals so I think people are more than happy to spend a little bit of money for that,'' said Thompson, who lives separately on one of Hong Kong's outlying islands. The makeshift hotel opened last week and guests are booked in from all over the world, he said, including from mainland China. One current guest, who identified himself as Allen D from San Francisco, said he was staying there because he supports "`revolutionary spirit'' and was ''in awe'' of Hong Kong's protesters. The 26-year-old, who is traveling the world and camped at the protest sites after arriving in Hong Kong in November, found Thompson's replica through online accommodation site Airbnb.com Pro-democracy campaigners are still making their voices heard around the city, with large banners appearing on landmarks and pop-up markets selling movement memorabilia, as well as smaller protest gatherings. --AFP
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