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| Low voter turnout in Pakistan polls |
| Polling has ended in Pakistan's elections. Many voters have stayed away from the crucial election that could decide the fate of Pakistan President
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| PAKISTAN
, 18-February-2008
8:57:57 AM |
| Polling has ended in Pakistan's elections. Many voters have stayed away from the crucial election that could decide the fate of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
Over eight crore people had the right to cast their vote. But the shadow of fear has hung over this election, even though the day was by and large peaceful.
There were scattered complaints of rigging from Lahore but it's still too early to judge the scale of these complaints.
The fear factor has been boosted by steady violence. On Sunday night, gunmen shot down one candidate and four workers of Nawaz Sharif's party.
And hours before the polls, there were several blasts - 20 in southern Balochistan, two in Quetta, and militants blew up a polling station in Swat valley in northwestern Pakistan.
In Sindh a candidate was wounded in an attack on a polling station.
Poll violence
On Sunday night gunmen shot dead Chaudhry Asif Ashraf, a candidate of the PML-N and four other party workers in Lahore.
Ashraf was killed while he was visiting his constituency. Nawaz Sharif met his family on Monday morning.
Speaking to NDTV in Lahore, Sharif's brother Shahbaz Sharif blamed the ruling regime for Chaudhry Ashraf's murder.
Shahbaz Sharif also said that if the two main opposition parties do not get a clear majority of two thirds, they will declare the elections rigged and take to the streets in protest.
Meanwhile, tension is beginning to show within the Pakistan People's Party. In Larkana, Benazir Bhutto's hometown, there was an ugly scene at a polling booth.
Ghinwa Bhutto, widow of Benazir's brother Murtaza Bhutto flew into a rage when she went to vote.
She lashed out at another Pakistan Peoples Party member Nisar Khoro, who she accused of tampering with the voters list.
Nisar had gone into the booth to look into complaints of bogus voting.
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