Received from Noman on the People’s Resistance network
Voting was very smooth at Jennings School (near Cantt station) and no complaints were seen or reported. MQM and PPP were both largely peaceful throughout the day.
Just after polling ended at 5, we heard the sound of gunfire coming from a distance. Police arrived immediately (quite unbelievable but swift response). We were told that unknown people had fired in front of Cantt Public School (at gate opposite Askari apartments), a distance of less than a kilometer from where I was.
Later on, when I spoke to the police officer standing nearby (ASI), he told me it was PPP supporters who fired in the air after one of their workers was slapped by an MQM worker. The police stopped MQM from showing “strength” by return fire. The good thing was that parties from both camps talked to each other and pulled away. Both parties claimed they had licensed weapons. I confirmed this police version from both MQM and PPP camps.
Four vans of rangers were still there till about 730 pm.
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6 responses to “Report from NA-250”
In Distt Central where MQM claims to have majority, people have voted 10 or more times. I personally know one who enjoyed the prevelige of voting more than once. This is the tactics of MQM. They had been given free hand in the election. Not even Choudhries of Gujrat would have enjoyed such freedom.
So wait for the huge margin of victory for MQM particulerly in Distt Central.
MQM actually lost in NA 249 and NA 250.
Exactly, quiet a number of presiding officers (which I know personally)in NA-250 have said that Ikhtiar Baig won from their polling station but the result when announced presented a totally different image for some idiotic reason votes of the new Shujaat in town rocketed and she won with a margin of 10k approximately.
BTW Farooq Sattar was also losing till 7am dont know what kind of a miracle happened that at around 9am he was declared as a successful candidate :/
who can ever expect mqm to be honest? people from karachi always knew what kind of party mqm was, we always knew that mqm only won by rigging. finally so many people are speaking out against it. type rigging in karachi on google and so many results will show up with mqm’s name. fianlly people are starting to speak up against them, there are several videos clearly showing rigging online, some of them are posted on youtube: http://youtube.com/results?uploaded=d&search_query=mqm+rigging
the quality is not that great, but you can tell whats going on, there are several other videos over the internet along with people sharing their persona experiences on elections day in online blogs. on the 26th of feb, ppp is taking mqm to court to the sindh high court for rigging these elections. honestly, enough of living in fear from these thugs, they should go and let us karachi people live in peace.
NA-250 was such a joke, the MQM b*stards each voted more than 10 times or so. They can never win a fair election.
There are some people I know who support MQM and they proudly say how many times have they voted :/ the least amount came from this guy who was like I only got a chance to vote 40 times! wakeup ECP?