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Polling agents tortured, some taken hostage for two hours and beaten, including 4 women workers.
Polling has been suspended in the area, which falls under NA-242.
MWM candidates are expected to cause an upset by putting a dent into the vote bank of various contenders.
Photo on electoral roll to help verify voters.
About 40 per cent of the area’s residents don’t have access to potable water.
The constituency has pockets of MQM, PPP, ANP and JUI-F supporters.
Think their peers imprisoned in India may face harsher treatment following Sarabjit’s death.
ANP, PPP, MQM blame ECP, caretakers for turning blind eye to attacks.
Most residents of NA-241 are labourers on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
Residents complain political leaders disappeared right after they secured seats in the previous elections.