Defying threats of violence, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote. But militant attacks that killed 22 people underlined the risks many people took just casting their ballots. (May 11)
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AP TELEVISION – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Rawalpindi, Quetta, Lahore, Peshawar – May 11, 2013
1. Various of people voting, violence aftermath with debris, injured people
VOICE-OVER SCRIPT:
IN PAKISTAN … VOTING IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HAS BEGUN …
AND SO HAS THE VIOLENCE …
GUNMEN OPENED FIRE ON AN ELECTION CAMP OF ONE PARTY NEAR A POLLING STATION … INJURING SEVEN PEOPLE.
SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Sheer Khan, Party worker and eyewitness:
THIS PARTY WORKER SAYS “They opened fire towards us. Our boys ran here and there.
IN ANOTHER CITY … TWO MEN ON A MOTORBIKE ATTACKED THIS PARTY OFFICE WITH A HAND GRENADE … INJURING NINE PARTY WORKERS.
AROUND PAKISTAN … AT LEAST 22 PEOPLE DIED AND DOZENS INJURED IN OTHER ELECTION VIOLENCE … BLAMED ON MILITANTS.
IN PESHAWAR IN THE NORTHWEST … A BOMB EXPLODES OUTSIDE A POLLING STATION, KILLING AT LEAST ONE PERSON.
THE VOTE MARKS THE FIRST TIME A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT HERE IS FINISHING ITS TERM … HANDING OVER POWER TO ANOTHER.
THE RACE IS PITTING A FORMER CRICKET STAR AGAINST A TWO-TIME PRIME MINISTER AND AN UNPOPULAR INCUMBENT.
LEE POWELL, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
