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Old Jun 11th, 2009, 06:28 PM   #9 (permalink)  
janab-e-ali
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What exactly is the argument here? The guy contested in the election and lost miserably.
The main issue is the absurd idea put forward by you and your compatriots that the defeat of one unpopular pseudo-separatist somehow indicates a lack of popular support for the independence movement. Like I said...grasping at straws.

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There have been no reports of serious fraud in the elections.
Thats what Indians always claim...even back in the 90's when soldiers routinely rounded up villagers at gunpoint and dragged them to the polls.

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Has it become so difficult for Pakistanis to understand how normal democracy and elections work?
I'm Kashmiri, not Pakistani.

And the pathetic charade I've observed first hand in Kashmir all too many times does not qualify as "normal democracy and elections" by any stretch of the imagination.






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