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Gujarat Polls: Overall 63.14% Voter Turnout Recorded In First Phase

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Gandhinagar: As the voting in the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly election culminated on Thursday the overall voter turnout was recorded at 63.14 per cent.

The overall voter turnout till 9 am was 4.94 per cent, at 11 am it was recorded at 19.24 per cent, at 1 pm it was recorded at 36.65 per cent and at 3 pm the overall voter turnout was recorded at 48.65 per cent. The voting began at 8 am in 89 constituencies spread across 19 Kutch, Saurashtra and South Gujarat districts.
The polling was brisk to moderate in different places in the state.

According to the data from the Election Commission of India, Narmada recorded the highest voter turnout at 78.24 per cent and Botad recorded the lowest at 57.58 per cent.

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Kachchh recorded voter turnout to be 59.80 per cent, Surendranagar at 62.46 per cent, Rajkot at 60.45 per cent, Jamnagar at 58.42 per cent, Devbhumi Dwarka at 61.71, Porbandar at 59.51 per cent, Junagadh at 59.52 per cent, Gir Somnath at 65.93 per cent.

While the much-talked-about Morbi was at 69.95 per cent, Amreli at 57.59, Bhavnagar at 60.82 per cent, Bharuch at 66.31, Surat at 62.27, Tapi at 76.91, Dangs at 67.33, Navsari at 71.06 and Valsad at 69.40 per cent.

The second phase of polling will be held on December 5 and results will be declared on December 8 along with that of the Himachal Pradesh elections.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by HW News staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) this week called off the ceasefire with the government, posing a serious challenge for the newly appointed army chief General Asim Munir

Islamabad [Pakistan]: The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) this week called off the ceasefire with the government, posing a serious challenge for the newly appointed army chief General Asim Munir.

TTP ended the ceasefire agreed with the government in June and ordered fighters to stage attacks across the country, the Dawn newspaper reported on Monday. โ€œAs military operations are ongoing against mujahideen in different areas [โ€ฆ] so it is imperative for you to carry out attacks wherever you can in the entire country,โ€ the banned outfit said in a statement.

The Islamic groupโ€™s violent campaign had been picking up pace in recent months, with the most significant attack coming in Khyber Pakhtunkhwaโ€™s (KP) Lakki Marwat district last month, in which at least six policemen were martyred.

According to Dawn, the Quetta attack signals the new beginning of a violent post-ceasefire campaign by the TTP, unless the security establishment and political leadership start to nip this evil in the bud.

The TTP, a Pakistani offshoot and close ally of the Afghan Taliban, is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States and the United Nations. According to UN estimates, it has between 4,000 to 6,500 fighters in Afghanistan. Its spread is beyond the tribal belt, to Pakistani cities.

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Armed terrorists on November 16 ambushed a police patrol in KP, killing all six policemen. Local officials told Al Jazeera the incident took place when the police vehicle was fired upon in the city of Lakki Marwat, about 200 km from the provincial capital of Peshawar.

In another incident, two soldiers were killed in a shootout with terrorists in the Hilal Khel area in Bajaur. Such clashes are routine in the difficult-to-govern terrain that borders Afghanistan, where TTP finds refuge, according to International Forum For Rights And Security (IFFRAS).

The failure of the federal and provincial governments to curb militancy has unsettled the peopleโ€™s lives. Protests of a unique kind have gained ground with people who want peace from TTPโ€™s depredations.

The Shehbaz Sharif governmentโ€™s response, however, has been to jail the protestors. People accuse the government of having failed to curb the TTP cadres, IFFRAS reported. Foreign observers also report collusion between the terrorists and the government.

TTP fighters were largely routed into neighbouring Afghanistan, but Islamabad claims the Taliban in Kabul are now giving the TTP a foothold to stage assaults across the border.

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