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Insaf Research Wing (IRW) is a part of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (movement for justice - a political party,
PTI). IRW was created in 2009 to carry out research in order to find solutions for problems in Pakistan.
The foremost goal of IRW is to keep people of Pakistan and PTI informed and prepared.

The wing is composed of committees. Each committee addresses issues related to its field of expertise.
The committees defined as of yet are (i) Economics & Finance (ii) Energy (iii) Science & Technology (iv)
Health (v) Education (vi) Environment (vii) Anti-Corruption (viii) Surveying (ix) Socio-Political (x)
Foreign Affairs (xi) Strategic Thinking.

The research reports/papers are either commissioned by the central executive committee of PTI or
committee members of IRW. PTI members can also suggest IRW to consider researching on a matter they
find important. IRW welcomes any contributions in the form of scholarly work addressing important
issues. Nevertheless, after the author(s) sends the document it is peer reviewed before getting published.
In the process of peer review the document is technically analyzed and scrutinized. The procedure is
necessary to maintain quality control. However, varying opinions & ideas are not penalized.

Apart from working on research reports/papers which shed light on problems and provide basic
solutions, IRW undertakes the task of preparing extensive policies for PTI. These detailed and in-depth
policy documents are a combination of input from several professionals who are well versed in the
subject. IRW also serves as a check on the reigning government’s policies.

The Wing does not follow a preset ideology while carrying out research. IRW does not endorse any
opinion presented in a published report/paper as an official position. Likewise, several research
reports/papers on a similar subject published by IRW can have contradictory recommendations
though it should be noted that these point of views are sole responsibility of the author(s). Very
rarely when there is a complete consensus on a certain research report/paper within IRW only
then it is recommended to PTI for official perusal. Any published document by the wing does not
constitute it as an official position of PTI unless otherwise stated.

Insaf Research Wing works at a national level but its members are located throughout the world bringing
in the much needed international experience. IRW practices an open membership policy valid for all
Pakistanis regardless of religion or race. Nevertheless, members of other nationalities from international
organizations interested in helping Pakistan are always welcome to join IRW.

Published reports of IRW can be accessed at PTI’s website www.insaf.pk. The headquarter of IRW is
located at PTI’s Central Secretariat, Street No. 84, Sector G-6/4, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Copyright © 2013 by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf All rights reserved.

The contents of this report/paper cannot be reproduced without prior permission of IRW.

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 DEDICATED TO THOSE
FIGHTING
FOR

JUSTICE

“Do not give up and do not be downhearted. You shall be uppermost if you are believers.”
(Surat Al ‘Imran: 139)
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Table of Contents

THE TEAM .................................................................................................................................................................................. 5

THE PROJECT............................................................................................................................................................................. 6

PHASES OF THE PROJECT.......................................................................................................................................................... 7

DATA COLLECTION ............................................................................................................................................................ 8

ISLAMABAD CHAPTER – REPRESENTATIVES ................................................................................................................. 8

YOUTH WING (YW_ISLAMABAD) .............................................................................................................................. 9
INSAF STUDENTS FEDERATION (ISF_ISLAMABAD) ................................................................................................... 11
WOMEN WING (WW_ISLAMABAD) ........................................................................................................................ 11
INSAF PROFESSIONALS FORUM (IPF_ISLAMABAD) ................................................................................................... 12
INSAF LAWYERS FORUM (ILF_ISLAMABAD) .............................................................................................................. 12

MEMBERS & NON-MEMBERS PTI (ISLAMABAD) ......................................................................................................... 13

STUDENTS (ISLAMABAD).............................................................................................................................................. 14

DATA CLEANING ............................................................................................................................................................... 14

DATA ENTRY...................................................................................................................................................................... 14

DATA ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................................................................. 14

MANY THANKS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 15

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ............................................................................................................................................................. 15

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The Team

Concept (of) -- Theoretical Framework (of) -- Project Director:

Atif Abbas

Facilitators:

Ghulam Abbas and Shagufta Jabeen

Research Associates:

Gulfam Khan Khalid and Hasham ud din Qazi

Program Coordinator:

Sardar Azhar Tariq Khan

Data Collection Coordinators:

Chaudhry Tariq Aziz, Nafeesa Inayat Khattak, Umer Saqaf, Sohail Satti, Muhammad Banaris
Chaudhary, Shahzad Asif, Sulaiman Malik, Hassan Bokhari and Farrukh Dall

Enumerators:

Javed Iqbal Mehsood, Saghir Khan, Muhammad Shahnawaz Khan Lodhi, Syed Javaid Bokhari,
Farzana Shaheen Abbasi, Sobia Athar, Saba Afzal, Saima Danyal, Rubina Daud, Hajmeera BiBi,
Samina Ahmad, Hafeez Ullah Khan, Saira Faisal, Bakhtawar Malik, Uzma Haider, Zia Ullah,
Tahir Khan Yousafzai, Niqqab Shah, Hamayun Khan, Tahir Arif, Mian Shakeel, Khalid
Mehmood Awan, Shahzad Manzoor, Usman Kiyani, Chaudhary Awais Aftab, Shahzad Alam,
Saddiq Rehman, Nouman Khan, Naureen Ibrahim, Anjum Israr, Shahzad Arbi Satti, Ahsan ul
Haq Satti, Ahmad Iqbal, Muhammad Farooq, Zaffar Haider, Yasir Ali and Anayat Shinwari

Research Assistants:

Diya Rehman, Chaudhry Afzaal Akram, Zaheer Abbas and Shakaib Ahmed Maulai

Data Entry Coordinator:

Gulfam Khan Khalid

Team Members:

Syed Farrukh Mehmood, Omair Idress, Waseem Ahmed, Muhammad Kaleem Ullah, Ayesha
Gull, Muhammad Ali Ishaque, Ranjhan Touqir, Umar Mumtaz, Qazi Syed Rafaqat, Arslan
Zafar, Syed Zain Abbas Bukhari, Muhammad Uzair, Sayyed Abdullah, Sulman Manzoor, Arbab
Mehdi, Rehman Zaheer, Asim Shehzad, Sulaman Khan, Toseef Ahmad, Ali Shan, Rameez Fida
and Umer Naeem

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Public Opinion on Society, Politics,

Governance & Sovereignty
Vision was to engage human resource of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in
Union Councils in research in order to document viewpoint of citizens on the
four indicators: Society, Politics, Governance and Sovereignty.

The Project
Political parties are public platforms, which claim to revolutionize this politically fractured -
economically crippled - socially fragmented Muslim nuclear state through their policies do not document
opinion on issues-affairs even within the party to know what and how majority of the party workers/citizens
think for whom they craft policies. Citizens viewpoint is the ‘information’ required to analyze and formulate
policies, which lead to decision making. In our politics, policies are being made (though not implemented) for a
common man without knowing his perspective – this creates a demand to gather data by starting process of
conducting surveys for more comprehensive policy-making hence, for better decisions.

To reach public in a different style, gather their opinion scientifically and share it worldwide, I
presented a game plan (November 2010). To set trend and shape culture of surveying, I implemented different
plans.

The idea was to utilize human capital of the party on-ground for research and for that, people were
introduced to the concept – I invited them to contribute. I made it people’s project - involved more and more
people to make them the credibility factor of the survey. Those who don’t even support the party volunteered
in documenting public opinion. I engaged students in research - involved them in two phases of the project;
students who are neither associated with this party nor its federation of students participated.

I started working on the game plan in September 2010; to engage people for data collection I
implemented three plans. Target sample size was +1, 000.

Plan-A was to engage Regional Organizer’s (RO) in Union Councils (UC) in data collection – it wasn’t
successful {year 2011}.

Plan-B was, introduce concept of research to entities (wings-federation-forums) of the party {year
2012} and involve students in ‘research in politics’ whose energies are utilized only in activism. The plan was
partially successful.

Plan-C, I involved my friends - especially those teaching in universities.

Distributed 2,420 questionnaires with guidelines document and introductory letter; number of
photocopies of those documents, 14,865. Number of filled questionnaires collected 1,495 and considered 897.
Data collection period: September – December 2011 and January – December 2012. Cost on the project is
between twenty to twenty-five thousand rupees. No one has ever collected and collated primary data from a
political platform on voluntarily basis.

The research project brought various people and different teams on one platform, unique example of
teamwork; collaboration of Insaf Research Wing (IRW) : Women Wing (WW) + Youth Wing (YW) + Insaf
Students Federation (ISF) + Insaf Professionals Forum (IPF) + Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) + PTI members and

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non-members. For the first time, PTI members and non-members conducted survey in urban and rural areas of
federal capital of Pakistan.

Phases of the Project

Phases of the project are:

 Design of Research Instrument

 Data Collection
 Data Cleaning
 Data Entry
 Data Analysis

Research instrument (questionnaire) was designed, pretested, translated then pretested, photocopied
and packed by me; data was collected by RO’s, members, students and my friends. I distributed and collected
the questionnaires.

I cleaned the data, which was entered in four phases. I shall analyze the data and present it.

The duration (in months) of phases of the project is presented in Figure-1.

Figure-1: Survey Phases – Duration

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Data Collection
Islamabad has twenty rural and twenty four urban UC’s (total 44); survey was conducted from
September to December 2011 and January to December 2012. Most of the urban area was covered but not the
rural area as planned; two thousand four hundred and twenty questionnaires in Urdu were distributed.

The number of questionnaires distributed, collected and considered, shown in Figure-2.

Figure-2: Number of Questionnaires :: Distributed-Collected-Considered

Islamabad Chapter – Representatives

Year 2011 [Plan-A], in April one thousand two hundred and eighty questionnaires were given to RO’s. In
December (2011), collected one hundred and seventy nine filled and some unfilled questionnaires from former
President NA-48; considered one hundred and twenty three questionnaires.

General Secretary lost eight hundred and thirty two questionnaires.

Figure-3: Regional Organizers (Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-A_2011)

Coordinator, Amir Mughal

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Year 2012 [Plan-B], on March 14 former President Zone-1 was given hundred questionnaires. He
returned forty eight filled questionnaires and remaining unfilled; considered twenty five questionnaires.

Figure-4: Team Zone-1 (Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-B_2012)

Coordinator, Chaudhry Tariq Aziz

Youth Wing (YW_Islamabad)

January 20, 2012 [Plan-B], Youth Wing (YW) was given four hundred and eighty questionnaires for
conduction of survey only in rural area, 20 union councils. Collected three hundred and twenty four
questionnaires; considered only eighteen. YW didn’t return remaining questionnaires.

Figure-5: Youth Wing (YW_Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-B_2012)

Coordinator, Sohail Satti

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June 11 (2012), RO’s-Rawat were given hundred questionnaires; collected sixty four - didn’t receive
remaining questionnaires.

Figure-6: PTI-Team_Rawat (Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-B_2012)

Coordinator, Muhammad Banaris Chaudhary

July 22 (2012), two members of YW were given hundred questionnaires for conduction of survey in
rural area – they lost all the questionnaires.

Figure-7: YW_Members (Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-B_2012)

Members, Kashir Chaudhary & Waqas Abbasi

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Insaf Students Federation (ISF_Islamabad)

February 08 (2012), Insaf Students Federation (ISF) was given six hundred questionnaires for
conduction of survey in urban UC’s. Afterwards, Senior Vice President (SVP) told that federation can conduct
survey (only) in universities of Islamabad in one week. After that, I didn’t get any response from him.

Only, team of Umer Saqaf, Zia Ullah, Tahir Khan Yousafzai and Niqab Shah conducted the survey by
organizing two camps in male campus of their university. They got short of survey forms and photocopied the
questionnaire from their own pocket. They also placed questionnaires in membership-camp.

Collected around two hundred and eighty unfilled questionnaires from a member-ISF; SVP lost
remaining questionnaires.

Figure-8: Insaf Students Federation (ISF_Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-B_2012)

Coordinator, Umair Kujar

Women Wing (WW_Islamabad)

January 18 + June 13 (2012), Women Wing (WW) was given two hundred and forty questionnaires for
conduction of survey among female citizens in rural and urban UC’s; collected seventy seven questionnaires –
received some unfilled questionnaires.

Figure-9: Women Wing (WW_Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-B_2012)

Coordinator, Nafessa Inayat Khattak

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Insaf Professionals Forum (IPF_Islamabad)

April 26 (2012), Insaf Professionals Forum (IPF) was given ninety questionnaires for conduction of
survey in urban UC’s; collected thirty - didn’t receive remaining (unfilled) questionnaires.

Figure-10: Insaf Professionals Forum (IPF_Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-B_2012)

Coordinator, Sulaiman Malik

Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF_Islamabad)

September 06 (2012), Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) was given fifteen questionnaires for conduction of
survey; collected twelve filled questionnaires.

Figure-11: Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF_Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-B_2012)

Coordinator, Farrukh Dall

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Members & Non-members PTI (Islamabad)

Contribution of people (PTI members and non-members) presented in Table-1.

Table-1: Members & Non-Members PTI (Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-C_2012)

Union
Councils Questionnaires # of # of filled Questionnaires
Targeted Given on Questionnaires Collected
[Rural+Urban] Given

Considered

Hasham ud din Qazi (U) - 40 24 24

(member PTI) {returned remaining}

Shahzad Asif (U) - 50 40 39

{returned remaining}

Saddiq Rehman (U+R) - 11 11

{He himself
(member IPF) photocopied}
{& 7 unfilled}

Shahzad Arbi Satti

(former Press (R) June 29 50 30 17
Secretary, {returned remaining}
Chairman PTI)

Hassan Bokhari (U) October 30 90 30 29

{returned remaining}

Uzma Haider (U) - 20 18 18

Anjum Israr (U) - 20 09 04

(member IRW) {returned remaining}

Muhammad Farooq (U) - - {returned remaining} 07

Zaffar Haider (U) November 13 50 09 09

{returned remaining}

Yasir and Anayat (U) - 40 32 29

Mian Muhammad (R) June 07 115 00 -

Javed

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Students (Islamabad)
On February 20 and September 25 (2012), students (non-members) were given five hundred and ninety
four questionnaires - collected three hundred and seventy filled; considered one hundred and eighty four
questionnaires.

Some students photocopied the questionnaire from their own pocket.

Figure-12: Students (STD_Islamabad) – Survey (Plan-C_2012)

Coordinator, Gulfam Khan Khalid

Data Cleaning
The process of cleaning the data took around six months; respondents were contacted (on their e-
mail address and/or phone number) for verification. Enumerators were investigated – some were shown the
questionnaires for confirmation. Filtered questionnaires, which were falsely filled, fake and cannot be verified.
From 1,495 filled questionnaires collected, 897 questionnaires were considered for data entry.

Data Entry
Data entry was completed in four phases. In first two phases, students entered the data - the process
was coordinated by Gulfam Khan Khalid.

In third phase, I myself entered the data; in fourth phase, I checked the data ‘entered’ – not only
removed the errors but extracted fake questionnaires.

Data Analysis
Analysis will be based on Descriptive Statistics and data will be presented in graphs.

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Many Thanks
Many thanks to all the volunteers for their assistance, participation and contribution in this research
project; you have opened a new chapter in political history. I appreciate your efforts and patience.

I would like to express my gratitude to my parents – their support made me reach at the last phase of
the project.

Special thanks to my two friends, Gulfam and Hasham – for their assistance.

God bless you all.

About the author

Atif Abbas:- Research Scholar, work experience in management consultancy, print media and embedded
systems. Graduate of Peoples Open University in Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration and
of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in Computer Engineering.

[E-mail, A2: atieph@yahoo.com]

They said: “Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. You are the All-
Knowing, the All-Wise.” (Surat al-Baqara, 32)

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