Voter suppression: Pakistani style

No vote for you, Missy!

Husbands seizing their wives voter id cards to keep them from voting - at the behest of party officials...

Men are apparently seizing computerised national identity cards (CNIC) of the women of their families in several districts of Pakistan's Sindh province to stop them from voting in the February 18 elections.

The shock assassination of former prime minister and Pakistan Peoples Party chairwoman Benazir Bhutto provoked a wave of sympathy for the party, particularly in women and in Sindh.

After being told that women sympathise with the PPP, election candidates opposing the PPP in Naushero Feroz, Kashmore, Dadu, Ghotki, Tharparkar and Badin districts asked their voters to seize the CNICs of the women in their families to stop them from voting, sources said on Thursday.