RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: In the PILDAT assessment on quality of General Election 2018, the overall score of quality of General Election 2018 stands at 51.79 percent which has dropped nearly 5 percentage points from the quality of General Election 2013 assessed to be at 56.76 percent.

PILDAT has proposed investigation into those aspects of the election about which a number of questions have been raised by various political parties and candidates.

The quality of General Election 2018 has been assessed on 4 broad categories of 1, Pre-Poll; 2, Polling; 3, Counting of votes, Compilation & Transmission of Results and 4, Post-Poll phase. Pre-Poll Phase which has received an overall score of 50 percent; Polling Day Operations and arrangements for voting which have received the highest score of 64 percent; Counting, Result Compilation & Transmission of Results which have received the lowest score of 40 percent in the assessment and the Post-Poll phase which has received the score of 50 percent.

The PILDAT score card on assessment of quality of General Election 2018 is based on combined analysis and scoring of eminent persons who are members of PILDAT dialogue groups on electoral processes, quality of democracy and civil-military relations. They met on August 01, 2018 in Lahore. These include Maj Gen (Retd) Athar Abbas, Former DG, ISPR; Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Shahzad Chaudhry, Political and Security Analyst & Former Ambassador; Dr Ijaz Shafi Gilani, Chairman, Gallup Pakistan; Lt Gen (Retd) Moinuddin Haider, Former Governor Sindh; Shahid Hamid, Senior Supreme Court Advocate; Former Governor Punjab, Dr Parvez Hassan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan; Javed Jabbar, Former Senator, Former Federal Minister for Information & Media Development; Wazir Jogezai, Former Deputy Speaker, National Assembly of Pakistan; Rustam Shah Mohmand, Former Chief Secretary, KP; Arif Nizami, Editor, Pakistan Today; Tasneem Noorani, Former Federal Secretary; Ghazi Salahuddin, Columnist; Former Editor The News; Mujib-ur-Rehman Shami, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Pakistan; alongside PILDAT President and Joint Director, Ahmed Bilal Mehboob and Aasiya Riaz respectively.