Pakistan: cell phone blackout while voting takes place. Given the results, there are fears of fraud
General elections are being held in Pakistan, amidst attacks which have caused over thirty deaths between yesterday and today. Yet, despite everything, the democratic exercise is taking place, even if fears of fraud are notable both due to the interruption of mobile telephone services and because the partial results are certainly not appreciated by many parties in government.
At eight o'clock, at the end of the voting, the mobile phone service had been interrupted nationwide for "security reasons". So the government announced that this communications system had been reactivated in a large part of the country , but this communications blackout certainly raises doubts that the authorities want to manipulate the election result.
The results have not yet been announced, but according to Asia Elects' national results, the party of now jailed former Prime Minister Imarn Khan, the PTI, is clearly in the lead:
The PTI would not only have won, it would even have won by a landslide, while of the nine parties that are currently in government, after what was practically a coup d'état, four have disappeared, one has almost disappeared, two have significantly declined and only one has increased , while one is “Personal”.
In this situation all the parties except the PMLN are shouting about electoral fraud, and I think that few feel like blaming them. There are reports of movements of soldiers in front of various institutional offices, officially for security reasons. The PTI wanted a modernization of the country, greater rights for women and minorities, a less corrupt management of the state, balanced international relations between the various powers and an end to the Kashmir crisis with India.
Tomorrow we will know if there will be a military coup or a moment of democracy.
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