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Pak CEC asks polling staff to ensure flawless counting

Islamabad, Feb 18: Pakistan's Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq has asked polling staff to ensure flawless counting of ballot papers. "Election Commission made every effort for fairness and transparency of polls. Now, you people would make it further credible by careful counting," he told the polling staff during visit to six polling stations in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

"In such a massive exercise, minor incidents are usual and the DROs and ROs can take care of such matters," he told reporters who pointed out incidents of snatching of ballot papers in one constituency. "If anybody has done it, he cannot use these ballots for fake vote casting due to safe entries, secret marks and stamps being fixed on the ballot papers," Farooq said. He was satisfied with the pace of polling and hoped for good voter turnout.

"No complaint of rigging has yet been received by the Election Commission," the Dawn quoted Farooq, as saying.

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No US observers for Pakistan Feb 18 polls

Lahore, Feb,1: A US observer group that was planning to monitor the February 18 elections in Pakistan has opted out over election-day security concerns. According to the Washington Post,Thomas E Garrett, the International Republican Institute"s (IRI) election expert on Pakistan was quoted as saying: “We don"t believe the security environment is such that we could do the things we"d like to do." The IRI further warned that the potential for suicide bombings and general acts of violence made it impossible.....
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