Peculiar polling March 13, 2021 The Senate chairman and deputy chair election was always going to be a bit of a thriller but Friday gave us a set of very unusual events. In the first place we had the extraordinary scenes of two opposition senators discovering ‘spy cameras’ of various kinds from the polling booth that had been set up for senators to cast their ballots. The PDM claimed the cameras were intended to identify PTI members who may have chosen to vote against party lines. This whole episode brought a host of memes and different jokes, which flooded social media. But it added nothing to the politics of Pakistan or to progress in any positive direction at a time when the country stands deeply divided.