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green and white flag."If they do not cover the gutters then this is my right to sit inside the gutter and protest," Motiwala tells
AFP.Motiwala has chosen the water tap as his election symbol.Water is a highly charged issue, with experts saying Pakistan faces "absolute
stacked against Tony in a constituency populated with around 130,000 mostly Muslim registered voters, compared to just 160 Sikhs.His two
opponents come from parties backed by religious organisations
The contest comes just months after local Sikh community leader Charanjeet Singh was shot dead, and weeks after an bomb attack killed over
20 people at an election rally in the provincial capital.If elected, Tony has vowed to serve all communities equally, but is still wary of
simmering threats."We are vulnerable targets," Tony says
Wazir has had 10 relatives killed by militants, who have also destroyed his home, orchards and petrol station since the military first took
the fight to the Pakistani Taliban more than a decade ago.But he has never backed down."I am contesting elections at the demands of my
people," said Wazir in an online video
headdress, while a thin red scarf adorns the neck of a candidate seeking to be the "king of politics".But Shahzada is a lonely king at the
head of a party of which he is the only member, who in the last 32 years has competed in 41 elections, and never won one.In 1990 his party
was refused registration when he vowed to provide Pakistanis with residential plots on the moon
In 2013 he won just seven votes
"Politicians are making us fools, they are misleading the public, and I try to make people aware with my funny style," he told AFP.His
slogan "Need-based corruption"
Karim Nousherwani, the weather vaneOpportunism is his ideology
This time he will compete for the Balochistan Awami Party, a local provincial organisation
By aligning with the ruling parties that he gets development projects for his territory, he says
"The moment he feels the power ship is sinking, he will be the first to jump out for another ship," says another parliamentarian, on
condition of anonymity.Nousherwani, who first worked as a driver, was unable to run in the 2002 and 2008 elections because he did not
