TASHKENT:
Uzbeks voted massively in a presidential election on Sunday with turnout topping 70 per cent halfway through the poll expected to deliver another landslide victory for strongman Islam Karimov.
Few doubted the outcome after all three of Karimov’s challengers endorsed his campaign to extend an iron-fisted rule that dates to before the fall of the Soviet Union.
The central electoral commission said almost 15 million people had cast their ballots at more than 9,000 polling stations as of the halfway point in voting, for a turnout of 71.6pc.
Karimov, 77, cast his ballot at midday in the lopsided vote in the Central …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
