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Afghanistan/South Asia
Women barred from voting
2005-08-19
PESHAWAR: Women in several NWFP districts were barred from voting in the local elections on Thursday, polling staff and a women's rights advocacy group complained. "There are complaints from Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan, Karak, Bannu, Buner and Swabi districts where women were not allowed to vote," an Aurat Foundation spokesman told Daily Times. NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq dismissed the reports as "propaganda".
"Dat's right! Pure calumny an' fabrications! Lies, too!"
"We have received no such report from any district and I don't know why the media is so sensitive about this issue," he told reporters.
"Yeah! Whatsa fuss?"
In Sheikh Muhammadi Union Council in Peshawar, women's polling station No 51 was deserted as local elders stopped women from voting. "Not one voter has turned up between 8:00am and 1:00pm," a woman presiding officer said.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Gotta do a MacArthur and send police or troops to the polling station - democracy was there to stay in Japan, espec after the masses elected their first prostitute to public office by large margin!? BWAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-08-19 20:58  

#8  Alex,

If you served in the Afghanistan, then my repects to you. But let's be honest. Why the dig at ISAF and their, and your, work in keeping the peace in Kabul, especially on a Pakistani thread? Do you really think the situation has not improved from when the Taliban controlled 95% of Afghanistan? Did women vote in the Afghan elections? Did they run for office? Do the Afghans seem more mellow than their nutcase cousins across the border? Don't Afghans, espcially women, have more freedom than under the Taliban? Are Afghans hosting or sponsoring terrorists against non-muslim? And just who make up most of the Taliban these days, Afghans or Pakistanis?
Posted by: ed   2005-08-19 13:07  

#7  are we all clear this article is about Pakistan, NOT afghanistan?
Posted by: liberalhawk   2005-08-19 12:40  

#6  Ed

Once again have you been there have you seen with your own eyes how things are it seems not the country is going backwards. It is the same that is happening in Russia it goes forward a bit then it rewinds, You know I find it amazing the way you single me out to loose all your stress, Its not fair
Posted by: Alex   2005-08-19 12:28  

#5  Alex,

ISAF is working well. Afghan did vote (and ran as candidates) in last year's elections. This September, Afghan women will vote again, and again run as candidates, in elections.

Now, since ISAF is doing it's job of ensuring free and fair elections in Afghanistan (the first in it's history, you can thank George Bush), can I get your support for ISAF to pacify Pakistan?
Posted by: ed   2005-08-19 11:40  

#4  They need to attack the culture of denying women's rights. Change the debate to focus on the reasons these losers hate and fear women so much.

"The issue isn't women, it's why men who are probably homosexual pedophiles who were made to dress up like little girls by their mommies and who have no testicles anyway, are in a position to force their will on mature, intelligent women, who want nothing to do with such diseased perverts."
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-08-19 11:21  

#3  "Not one voter has turned up between 8:00am and 1:00pm (Allah Akhbar!),(May Allan deny me virgins in paradise. No voters turned up, just women.)"
Posted by: BigEd   2005-08-19 11:05  

#2  scum suckers
Posted by: Captain America   2005-08-19 08:20  

#1  Glad to see that ISAF worked so well
Posted by: Alex   2005-08-19 05:14  

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