February 28, 2021
The Daska incidents have raised questions about the Election Commission’s ability to hold free and fair elections
Daska looked like a war zone on the polling day. “It was like a scene from an Indian movie. Bullets were being shot in random directions on the streets and there was no one to stop it. It had never been like this here, ever,” Abid Mehdi, a local journalist, told
The News on Sunday. Mehdi works for a national newspaper
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Eyewitness accounts of by election in Daska, NA-75, are alarming. Two polling agents lost their lives. They were identified as Pakistan Tehreej-i-Insaf’s Majid and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Zeeshan. The deaths were reported from a polling station set up at Government Boys High School Goindkey-Bombaanwala. Two other PML-N supporters, Sajid and Fahad, were seriously injured.