Re: Rigging in 2013 elections
Most people think that MQM wins only based on threats and force. It is good that you at lest believe it to be untrue. Support to MQM among many Karachiites is genuine. People must understand this.
About rigging in some places where race is tight; if those constituencies are equally distributed then rigging should happen from both sides. Please don’t think that everyone besides MQM is an angel. My personal idea is that most people are quite weary of rigging happening in elections, especially by MQM, whom they consider no less than devils. So anything which goes awry is seen as sign of rigging by MQM.
In NA 250, polling started late in some polling station because ballot box arrived late or staff was missing. I dont understand how MQM could be held responsible for this. It also needs to be seen how many polling stations had this issue. By just reporting about one or two stations out of several, one can not make the statement about the whole constituency.