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Pakistan mobilises troops for election

AFP, Islamabad
Tens of thousands of Pakistani troops deployed across the nuclear-armed nation yesterday to provide security for next week's elections after a series of attacks, the interior ministry said.
The move came as a bomb outside a candidate's office wounded nine people - the second attack on a politician in two days in a country that is still reeling from the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in December.
In a show of force ahead of Monday's polls, army soldiers and paramilitary forces stood guard at government buildings and potentially sensitive areas of several major cities, witnesses said.
"Army has started mobilising and moving to their respective areas of deployment today and
would complete its deployment by February 15," interior ministry spokesman Javed Chcema told reporters.
Authorities had drawn up plans to provide security for more than 64,000 polling stations, Cheema said. More than 1,000 international observers and journalists were coming to monitor the polls, he added.
He rejected opposition con cerns that the army could be used to interfere with the polls to benefit allies of President Pervez Musharraf - a former general who only quit the army in November.
"All these arrangements have been made to ensure that people cast their vote without any fear in an environment of peace and order. Nobody would be allowed to disrupt the polling process or create any law and order situation,” he said.
Officials in southern Sindh
province - Benazir Bhutto's political pow'erbase - said they had asked the army for four helicopters for surveillance duties and recruited 15,000 "volunteers” to assist police.
"We have also provided security to some political personalities including (Bhutto's husband) Asif Ali Zardari who have threats to their lives, " provincial home minister Akhtar Zamin said.
Pakistan has been hit by a wave of bombings in the run-up to the elections, most notably the attack at a political rally on December 27 that killed former premier Benazir Bhutto.
The government has blamed an al-Qaeda-linked tribal warlord for her murder and a series of bombings that have left around 100 people dead this year. It has warned candidates that they are at risk of attack.