Tape caught Pakistani official saying vote will be rigged

I recall that Mr. Bush once claimed Pakistan was a “model” of democracy, and one presumably the U.S. government would want repeated elsewhere. Of course, in America’s newspeak, a thug like Mussarraf is called a “democratic leader”, and a legitimately elected president in Venezuela is called a “dictator”. But even so, here we have some “honesty and candor” from the Pakistani Attorney General; a shame it had to be caught on tape. Of course, there is no surprise here, given that after Mussarraf jailed the moderate opposition and then got out of his “U.S. arranged” shotgun political wedding with Bhutto, it was already very clear he intended to keep control of real power.

A prominent U.S.-based human rights group Friday released what it said was a recording of Pakistan’s attorney general acknowledging that next week’s national elections would be “massively” rigged.

Human Rights Watch said a journalist made the recording during a telephone interview with Attorney General Malik Qayyum when Qayyum took a second call without disconnecting the first, allowing his end of the second conversation to be overheard and recorded.

In the recording, Qayyum, Pakistan’s top legal officer, can be heard advising the caller to accept a ticket he is being offered by an unidentified political party for a seat, Human Rights Watch said.

“They will massively rig to get their own people to win,” Qayyum said, according to a transcript released by Human Rights Watch. “If you get a ticket from these guys, take it….

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