In Pakistan, which is deep in debt, elections are being held at a time when there is fear among the people.
Amidst the collapsed political structure, there is a fear in Pakistan that violence might break out after the election results.
Terrorist attacks took place during the elections held in Pakistan on Thursday. At least 12 people, including 10 security personnel, were killed in this attack.
In addition, government forces foiled 51 terrorist attacks aimed at disrupting voting. Most of these attacks took place in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.
Pakistani stock market collapsed
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) began announcing the results of the elections late on Friday, more than 10 hours after polling ended amid allegations of rigging, sporadic violence and mobile phone service shutdown across the country.
After which the benchmark KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange went down by 1,700 points on Friday. The reason for this is believed to be the delay in announcement of election results and no single party getting majority.
The PSX website said the index fell 2,278 points soon after the start of trading on Friday. After this it recovered slightly and by afternoon it fell by 1,720.27 points or 2.68 percent to 62,423.60 points from the previous close of 64,143.87.
violence may occur
At present no party is seeing majority in Pakistan. In such a situation, it is feared that if the election results are not as per the wish of any party, there will be a massacre.
Disruption of mobile and internet services across the country during voting has upset political parties and raised doubts over the transparency of the voting process.
Pak media has quoted him as saying that the parties are apprehensive that the elections are just an excuse and only the army stooge will win. Pak media reports that the army’s full support is with Nawaz Sharif. Therefore, there is every possibility of his winning.
In fact, the army has always had influence on the political parties in power in Pakistan. Imran Khan took over as Prime Minister in 2018.
It is claimed that Imran was able to inherit the throne because the then Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa had his hand on his head.
However, even before the completion of the tenure, Bajwa and Imran had a falling out and Imran had to lose his throne. Now Asim Munir has replaced Bajwa.
The Army Chief changed but the situation in Pakistan did not change. Pakistani media has been continuously claiming that this time the full support of the public is with Nawaz Sharif.
However, the truth is just the opposite. Whether the public supports it or not, this time the army is holding Nawaz Sharif’s head and on the other hand, Imran Khan, who pointed fingers at the army, is in jail.
Neither phone nor internet worked the whole day during the elections.
Geo TV reports that counting of votes is going on in more than 95 thousand centers across the country. The biggest problem during the elections was that during the elections on February 8, neither mobile nor internet service worked in the entire country.
Following this disruption in the general elections, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) also wrote a letter to Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa. Political parties expressed concern that injustice is being done to the people of the country in the name of elections.
People are not able to contact their families. All political parties have expressed suspicion of collusion between the army and Nawaz Sharif’s party PML-N behind this act.
Terrorist attack on election day itself
Terrorist attack took place in Pakistan only during elections.
There have been incidents of violence in various parts of the country on election day. Two bomb blasts took place in Balochistan today. 4 policemen died in this terrorist attack.
Huge confusion in polling stations
Even during voting in Pakistan, huge turnout was seen in many centres. PTI alleged that polling could not begin even at 11 am at polling stations in their strongholds.
Whereas voting time was fixed at 8 am. People were not allowed to vote. Apart from this, the party alleged that in many places people went home without voting.
On this basis, PTI had requested the Election Commission to extend the voting time, but the Commission rejected this demand.