Here are the videos and they work even after YouTube was banned by MQM! (Open this post to view the video)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoSo4DwzPw0

An alternate link for this Geo video is also available in case people in Pakistan are not able to view this [CLICK HERE]
The News reports: For the first time in the history of the country, the Geo News on Friday aired a video unmasking rigging in the February 18 elections.
In the video, the scenes of polls […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
The only channel brave enough to play these videos has been Dawn News in Pakistan.
 It would obviously be too much to ask that pro-MQM channels like Geo and ARY play, or even mention rigging by MQM.
Turn the volume up. Open rigging. 8+ ballot papers being given to EACH MQM voter, all the […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
By Erik de Bruyn
Erik de Bruyn, leader of the left wing of the Flemish Socialist Party in Belgium has been invited by the PPP to monitor the elections in Pakistan. In particular he is monitoring the elections in the industrial belt of Karachi (NA 257) where the PPP candidate Riaz Lund is […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — US Senator John Kerry, in Pakistan as part of a team to observe parliamentary elections, said Tuesday the vote “meets the basic threshold of credibility and legitimacy.”
Kerry, a former US presidential candidate, appeared at a press conference with Senators Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel.
The trio monitored Pakistan’s crucial vote held Monday. […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
There are some interesting reports emerging on other blogs in Pakistan. Follow the links here
KO: My voting experience in the 2008 elections, where he shares his voting experience

-KO’s own family where out of 10 people, only two were on the list, so 8 couldn’t vote.
-His friends: Went to vote, his vote had already […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
By Ambreen
In NA-251 & PS-115 at PECHS Girls College, Karachi
The dhandli [cheating] I witnessed in the five minutes it took me to cast my first Pakistani vote was beyond even what a cynical person like myself could have imagined. I laughed in the face of its blatant-ness and had many who joined in, […]

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Source: NDTV
After a slow start, voting picked up in Pakistan on Monday but the shadow of violence loomed large with two blasts through the morning in Quetta.
In Lahore, five people including a Muslim League (N) candidate were gunned down in an election-eve attack.
The victims included a provincial assembly constituency 154 candidate from Nawaz Sharif’s party.
Gunmen […]

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Source: Human Rights News
Curbs on Journalists Hamper Election Reporting 
Threats and censorship against the independent media, bias in state television, and a widespread ban on live broadcasting are limiting the public’s right to information as
Pakistan goes to the polls, Human Rights Watch said today. Recent curbs on the media prohibit coverage of election rallies, live call-ins, […]

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Source: The emergency Times
Dear Journalist Colleagues,
Thanks for coming to this press conference on the invitation of Pakistan Federal Union Journalists. As you, Musharraf regime have banned many TV anchors including me without any written charge against us. The main objective of banning us was to pressurize Pakistani media to accept a new code of […]

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Source: The Wall Street Journal
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Tens of thousands of Pakistani civilians have signed up as election monitors, fostering hope that Monday’s national vote will end a history of rigged elections and restore stability to this jittery, nuclear-armed nation.
Ambreen Saba Khan is one of them. The 27-year-old teacher has been patrolling this army garrison […]

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Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States hopes Pakistan’s upcoming election will be free and fair and bring an end to domestic violence so that Islamabad can focus on the “war on terror.” But it may not get what it wants.
In addition, experts warn, any post-election violence that results in a confrontation between President Pervez […]

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(New York, February 15, 2008)
In an audio recording obtained by Human Rights Watch, Pakistan’s Attorney General Malik Qayyum stated that upcoming parliamentary elections will be massively rigged, Human Rights Watch said today.” In the recording, Qayyum appears to be advising an unidentified person on what political party the person should approach to become a candidate […]

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Source: U.S. News
Seven and a half weeks after the brutal slaying of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Pakistanis will go the polls in what has become a contentious referendum on the beleaguered presidency of Pervez Musharraf.
While Musharraf, who has been a key ally of the United States, is not on the ballot himself, his […]

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Source: Inquirer
LAHORE, Pakistan — The widower of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto met former premier Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday and said they discussed their fears that next week’s elections would be rigged.
The meeting between Asif Ali Zardari and Sharif further cemented opposition to President Pervez Musharraf ahead of the vote on Monday, with opinion […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
This writeup was posted on the People’s Resistance network, this might be more of a general report but quite literally the upcoming elections in Pakistan have all the signs to be fully rigged. Pakistan fails on each and every condition mentioned here
From Abuja to Islamabad, autocratic regimes have become adept at manipulating “free […]

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Source: Guardian
Declan Walsh in Kashmore
The whirlwind of violent destruction triggered by Benazir Bhutto’s death lashed Kashmore, a cotton-farming town at the junction of Pakistan’s three largest provinces, particularly hard.
A frenzied mob tore through its narrow streets, plundering banks, torching the hospital and trashing its telephone exchange. At the local station an express train was held […]

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Source: Abeer Hamid
Police at work in Lahore. If you needed visual proof of pre-poll rigging here it is. The bicycle is the symbol of Musharraf’s PML Q. So much for Musharraf’s claims about fair elections! Every instrument of state will be used to ensure the results are according to Musharraf’s plan, his […]

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