Pakistan rights group issues warning ahead of polls
(WorldNews Pakistan)

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan`s independent Human Rights Commission warned Monday of `blatant, aggressive and unabashed` attempts to manipulate the results of elections set for later this month, with prominent activist I.A. Rehman calling it `the dirtiest election` in the country`s troubled relationship with democratic rule. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in its statement raised several warning flags including allegations that members of disgraced prime minister Nawaz Sharif`s Pakistan Muslim League party were `being pressured to switch political loyalties,` while some of Sharif`s candidates were being asked to step down. In jail since his return to Pakistan last week, Sharif is...