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Rights group warns of ‘blatant’ bid to manipulate Pakistan vote

Pakistan faces a difficult election process

By: Sarwar Alam

Pakistan’s human rights commission on Monday (16) slammed “blatant, aggressive and unabashed” attempts to manipulate the upcoming election, as politicians expressed security fears following one of the country’s deadliest attacks. A string of attacks has killed 175 people across the country in the past week, and there have been widespread allegations that the powerful military is meddling in the run-up to the July 25 vote. The Election Commission has vowed to go ahead with the vote “at all costs”. But the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan warned it was “gravely concerned over what it sees as blatant, aggressive and unabashed attempts…

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