Re: Rigging in 2013 elections
This hardly seems like a democracy. What happened in Punjab is similar to what happened in Karachi. I dont see any difference. In Punjab, 30,000 vote leads were wiped out in 2 minutes, and results withheld. If it was 1 or 2 constituencies, one could sleep over it. But when it has obviously happened in dozens of constituencies, some very obvious ones, like Saad Rafique, Hanif Abbasi etc, then it is a cause for concern.
We always knew the EC and caretaker govt were impotent toothless tigers, but I still expect more than a few results in Punjab to be nulled and repolled. Pakistan cannot continue its failed-state policies of sham elections. I remember PML-N in 1997 elections. They were always considered the most rigged elections in Pakistans history, followed by 1977. But I feel that 2013 elections have turned out to be the worst.