Photos from Pakistan elections 2013…not the usual voting ones

Published May 11, 2013
A Pakistani boy cries next to the site of a bomb blast outside a polling station in Peshawar.
A Pakistani boy cries next to the site of a bomb blast outside a polling station in Peshawar.

Today – May 11, 2013, Pakistan went to polls as early as 8am. Whatever followed will be discussed another time, another place. The subsequent scenarios from today (May 11) compiled by Agencies and Dawn.com are anything but your avergage-joe-voting-photos. – Text by Dawn.com, photos/captions by Agencies.

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