{"id":197279,"date":"2008-02-18T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/18\/pakistani-attorney-general-says-vote-will-be-massively-rigged\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T03:28:00","slug":"pakistani-attorney-general-says-vote-will-be-massively-rigged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/18\/pakistani-attorney-general-says-vote-will-be-massively-rigged\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Attorney General Says Vote Will Be &#8220;Massively Rigged&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/100\/story\/27758.html\">has released a tape of an interview with the Pakistani AG saying this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that they were conducting a phone interview, and than Attorney General Malik Qayyum initiated a second phone call without terminating the first, and he was recorded saying, &#8220;They will massively rig to get their own people to win.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n<p>It appears fairly likely from the whole conversation that the &#8220;they&#8221; in question is Pervez Musharraf&#8217;s Pakistan Muslim League-Q party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch has released a tape of an interview with the Pakistani AG saying this. It appears that they were conducting a phone interview, and than Attorney General Malik Qayyum initiated a second phone call without terminating the first, and he was recorded saying, &#8220;They will massively rig to get their own people to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}