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Pakistan votes.

Eddie Mair | 07:45 UK time, Tuesday, 19 February 2008

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News online coverage is .

Hugh Sykes brought us coverage last night (he'll be back tonight) - here are some of his photos and words on Pakistan's election day. He writes:

"Here are some snaps of Islamabad on election day, and of a food queue the day before....


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Most people didn't vote. A lot of people played cricket.

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Returning officer and voters in an Islamabad polling station.


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Well-off Islamabadis chilling at The Monal - a restaurant in the Margalla Hills, looking down at Islamabad. Through the haze.


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Queue for cooking oil on election eve. Thirty women in their line, and ....


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.....seventy men in theirs. The oil here - subsidised by the government - is half its price in the market.


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After a two hour wait, this woman gets her ration of four litres.

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But the mood is mostly cheerful - this little boy demanded to be photographed.

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Elsewhere, this is a school bus in Karachi.


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And - frequent power cuts plague everyone's lives here now. And make editing stuff for PM a challenge."

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