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Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan has said the general elections were a contest between the people and the establishment and the establishment has won.
The JI amir appealed to those wielding gun for their cause to cease fire and allow the people having public mandate to improve the situation in the country.
According to a press release issued here on Friday, he also impressed upon the newly elected rulers to work out a way for dialogue so that the bloodshed in the name of war on terror could be stopped. He said the elections 2013 were a contest between the people and the establishment, adding the establishment had won. He remarked that the masses should not hope for any change.
He said that practically there were no election in Karachi and Hyderabad. Every facility was extended to MQM at the behest of the establishment for an electoral victory, he said. He further said though the establishment had won, the two cities had been thrown into a permanent chaos and turmoil.
The JI ameer deplored PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif was eager to befriend India and accept its supremacy even prior to the transfer of power. Nawaz should have supported the Kashmiris and talked of their right to self-determination, he said, adding India was committing water terrorism against Pakistan by stopping its river waters.
The JI ameer said the people who had been swept away in the PTI and PML-N tide should keep performance record of both the parties, adding that JI wanted them to be able to solve the people’s problems. 
He pointed out that the Supreme Court order for verification of electoral lists under the army’s supervision and fresh delimitation of the constituencies had not been implemented.
“If such things are practised in elections, the people’s confidence in the electoral process would be shattered and they would search for other ways for a change, he feared.