LAHORE: General elections have been delayed twice in the chequered political history of the country due to a natural calamity in 1970 and the assassination of then-chairperson Pakistan.
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Electoral malpractices even haunt India, US and the UK
National
February 10, 2021
LAHORE: What to talk of countries like Pakistan where democracy is yet to bloom fully and is still in an infancy stage by most respects, political trickery and resultant accusations of electoral malpractices still continue to cast a shadow on the purity and integrity of ballot exercises held in oldest and most civilized mass democracies like the United States and the United Kingdom, besides haunting the largest democracy like India, where about 911 million people are eligible to exercise their right of franchise.
Unfortunately, the vulnerability of electoral systems has always been the prospect that the losing side will not accept the outcome. And it happens in every nook and corner of the world. We have recently seen that happening in the United States where outgoing President Donald Trump thought he has been ‘robbed’ of victory by his triumphant successor Joe Biden.