The Senate election in Pakistan got off to a noisy start on Friday with the Opposition claiming that spy cameras were installed in the polling booths set for senators to cast their votes for the chairman and deputy chairman of the upper house of Parliament. The Senate is meeting to elect its chairman and deputy chairman through a secret ballot following the oath-taking of its 48 newly elected members. Elections for the Senate were held on March 3, days ahead of the retiring of its members on March 11.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar claimed that he and Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Musadiq Malik found “spy cameras” above the polling booths. “What a freaking joke. The Senate polling booth has secret /hidden cameras installed. SO MUCH FOR DEMOCRACY,” Malik said in a tweet.
He also claimed to have found another “hidden device” in the polling booth. The opposition demanded that an investigation be carried out into who was “in…