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| India-Pakistan |
| A frivolous case |
| 2015-07-26 |
| [DAWN] THE commission tried to be charitable. It threw in the bit at the end that the "PTI was not entirely unjustified in requesting the establishment" of the commission. It referred to the "suspicion of a sinister design". But we don't have to be charitable. In the end, the PTI case of mass fraud and manipulation hung on two claims. Both those claims the commission took on in detail. Both were demolished in their entirety. Both -- in the end -- were nothing more than political smokescreens. The first one, from the commission report: "562. The PTI has alleged that the Provincial Election Commission Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... had employed 200 extra persons, picked up from the Urdu Bazar Lahore, just 48 hours before the polling and surreptitiously printed ballot papers to be delivered to unknown constituencies." |
| Posted by:Fred |