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.
Pakistan experts: Religiosity fostering rise in militancy
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Pakistan court orders Briton controversially acquitted of beheading US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 to be moved from death row to a safe house complete with family visits
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh will be under guard and not allowed to leave the safe house, though his wife and children will be allowed to visit him
His father called the decision a step towards freedom after the hearing
Sheikh was controversially acquitted of Pearl s murder in a decision criticised by both the US and Pakistani governments as well as the Pearl family
Pearl disappeared in Karachi in 2002 while investigating links between Pakistani militant groups and the so-called shoe bomber