For Immediate
Release:
Feb 19th, 2008:
Maryland, Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee (PAKPAC)
congratulates the courageous people of Pakistan for actively
participating in the elections. As per the evaluations of the
international groups and the local groups, the elections were held
in a free and fair manner.
PAKPAC applauds the people of Pakistan to come
out and speak with their votes and also congratulates the current
election administrators in Pakistan for successfully holding free
and credible elections. The current administration had promised that
the elections would be fair and transparent and they have delivered
on their promise on the historical election day. PAKPAC acknowledges
that some of the parties representing extreme views were able to get
less than 1 percent of the elected positions, confirming that the
views of the majority of the people of Pakistan are not supportive
of an extreme view.
PAKPAC welcomes the new coalition government
representatives and looks forward to working with them in
strengthening the US -Pakistan relationship and sharing the issues
of concerns of the Pakistani American community with them. We hope
that the new leadership would continue to work on the issues of
common interest with the US administration. PAKPAC remains committed
to helping build and improve the people to people relationship
between the people of United States and Pakistan.
PAKPAC hopes that these election results would
serve as a beginning of an era which would result in improved
governance, independent judiciary and media, and a process where the
built in checks and balances of government would strengthen. There
is an urgent need for all the people in the region to identify ways
of improving the lives of the average people of Pakistan, focus on
appropriate education, strengthen the financial infrastructure and
have a comprehensive plan of dealing with the challenges of
extremism and intolerance in the small segment of the society.
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