Saifullah Sani
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By Amar Guriro
KARACHI: Attired in stylish dresses, carrying smart phones and tweeting updates, voters from posh locality were waiting in a long queue to cast their vote, when a man dressed casually- or apparently, poorly- joined the queue, but was soon sent to another queue reserved for his types. Fashionable men and women dressed elegantly were seen standing in long queues, many of them voting for the first time. Most of them were discussing about Naya Pakistan, but ironically, there was no place for lower and middle class in that new haven. This was observed at polling stations in NA-255 and PS-128 constituency located in DA Neelam High School that includes DHA and Neelam Colony, both. The poor soul who had unknowingly joined the queue reserved for the upper class was estranged by fashionable men voters, who said to the poor man, "This queue is for the voters of Defence and you seem to be from Neelam Colony, for you there is another polling booth." After this treatment, the resident of Neelam Colony, left the queue to find the fellow residents from his poor locality standing in line some distance away. In a detailed interview to Daily Times, Presiding Officer at PS-128 polling station Allah Wadhayo Channa confirmed that there are separate polling booths for not only men and women voters but also for rich and poor. "I have not designed such separate settings based on voters' financial status, but we got special directives from higher authorities of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Sindh," said Channa. "I personally believe it is better that people should be allowed to cast their vote separately, so that those who are educated and belong to posh locality must be separated from illiterate and residents of poor locality," Channa expressed in a recorded interview. However, Manzoor Ali who is a resident of Neelam Colony and was expelled from the queue said that he was not aware of such bifurcation. "I do not know that there are separate lines for 'Ameer' (rich) and 'Gareeb' (poor) otherwise I would have never stood there," he told Daily Times. On a question he said, "What difference does it make, I stand in this queue or that one, I just want to cast my vote and will return back to my pushcart that is lying in our colony." The 'rich' man who asked the 'poor' to leave the line with out disclosing his name, said that if government has made bifurcation for the residents of two separate localities, where is the problem.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
KARACHI: Attired in stylish dresses, carrying smart phones and tweeting updates, voters from posh locality were waiting in a long queue to cast their vote, when a man dressed casually- or apparently, poorly- joined the queue, but was soon sent to another queue reserved for his types. Fashionable men and women dressed elegantly were seen standing in long queues, many of them voting for the first time. Most of them were discussing about Naya Pakistan, but ironically, there was no place for lower and middle class in that new haven. This was observed at polling stations in NA-255 and PS-128 constituency located in DA Neelam High School that includes DHA and Neelam Colony, both. The poor soul who had unknowingly joined the queue reserved for the upper class was estranged by fashionable men voters, who said to the poor man, "This queue is for the voters of Defence and you seem to be from Neelam Colony, for you there is another polling booth." After this treatment, the resident of Neelam Colony, left the queue to find the fellow residents from his poor locality standing in line some distance away. In a detailed interview to Daily Times, Presiding Officer at PS-128 polling station Allah Wadhayo Channa confirmed that there are separate polling booths for not only men and women voters but also for rich and poor. "I have not designed such separate settings based on voters' financial status, but we got special directives from higher authorities of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Sindh," said Channa. "I personally believe it is better that people should be allowed to cast their vote separately, so that those who are educated and belong to posh locality must be separated from illiterate and residents of poor locality," Channa expressed in a recorded interview. However, Manzoor Ali who is a resident of Neelam Colony and was expelled from the queue said that he was not aware of such bifurcation. "I do not know that there are separate lines for 'Ameer' (rich) and 'Gareeb' (poor) otherwise I would have never stood there," he told Daily Times. On a question he said, "What difference does it make, I stand in this queue or that one, I just want to cast my vote and will return back to my pushcart that is lying in our colony." The 'rich' man who asked the 'poor' to leave the line with out disclosing his name, said that if government has made bifurcation for the residents of two separate localities, where is the problem.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
oh hello KPK people dont live in DHA.
and its a biggest victory that DHA poshly located youngsters came out to vote for the first time for someone.
