Banned outfit`s threats did not affect polls`
KARACHI: Threats issued by banned outfit did not affect the results of May 11, 2013 general elections and media played a positive role in covering the polls, said speakers at a moot.
They said at a roundtable discussion on `politics of conflict` organised by the Pakistan Press Foundation here the other day that before May 11 elections the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan had openly threatened to attack three major parties, Pakistan Peoples Party, Muttahida Qaumi Movement andAwami National Party, but the threat failed to influence the polls` results.
If the TTP threat had any effect, major religious parties like Jamaat-iIslami and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl would have swept the polls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but instead Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf got majority seats in the province, proving that people did not take the TTP threat seriously, they said.
Two research reports were presented at the moot. The first report was an in-depth analysis of news coverage of the violence since the day elections were announced in March and two weeks af ter the election.
The second report was about the content analysis of selected media outlets to indicate the challenges that regional media has been facing since long, and also to examine how local newspapers, radio and TV reported on and analyzed threats, security arrangements and impact of violence on the election.
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