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| India-Pakistan |
| Perv's in like Flynn for five more years |
| 2002-05-01 |
| The Election Commission announced that "large numbers" of people had turned out to cast votes in favour of Gen Pervez Musharraf in the presidential referendum on Tuesday. The results announced by the Election Commission till filing of this report, were well over 90 per cent in favour. Ninety percent! Wow! Those folks must really like Perv. I'll bet he's so flattered... The Chief Election Commissioner, Justice (retd) Irshad Hasan Khan, who visited Lahore, Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar in the day, announced the first result here at 11:30pm. He said that wherever he and other Election Commission members had gone they had seen large numbers of voters at the polling stations. "How large were they, Irshad?" "Very large. Larger than large." The CEC said it was a matter of great satisfaction for him that the voting had taken place in an orderly and peaceful manner and no report of any untoward incident had been received from any part of the country. Did they jug Qazi again? There were reports of rigging as the presiding officers were seen stamping the ballot papers and stuffing the ballot boxes. No. That'd never happen. Come now! In Pakland? Musta been mistaken... It was an electoral exercise where voters lists were not used. Everybody who claimed to have attained the age of 18 was welcome to cast his vote whether he had his identity card or not. Well, as long as they had honest faces, what was the harm? It's all for the best, isn't it...? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |