Pakistan Election 2013 l The anticipation and fear of violence make a day of reflection in Pakistan

The anticipation and fear of violence make a day of reflection before the elections tomorrow in Pakistan, where polls predict that the outgoing Liberal coalition will be replaced by a conservative majority. Around 600,000 members of the security forces have been deployed across the country to ensure the normal conduct of the elections.

At least 117 people have died in attacks linked to the election campaign in the country, since the beginning of April. Most of the attacks have been perpetrated by the largest local Taliban group, and Therik Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which considers the election "un-Islamic".

In the latest violence, four people were killed today and 15 injured in new bombing in a market in the town of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal district near Afghanistan considered a sanctuary for the Taliban and other insurgent groups linked to Al Qaeda , officials said.

The bomb was hidden in a motorcycle parked in a shopping area near the offices of the local candidates.

The attack has been claimed but, as a commander of the insurgents, the head of the Pakistani Taliban TTP, Hakimullah Mehsud has ordered run multiple suicide bombings on election day.

Also, today in the city of Quetta, west of the country, a car bomb explosion near an office of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has caused at least five wounded and numerous property damage.

The son of a former 'premier', kidnapped

An election candidate and son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani was kidnapped yesterday by a group of strangers for holding a rally on the final day of the campaign before the election call. Haider Ali Gilani was kidnapped, as reported by a police source, he left with his father and members of his training, the PPP, a fertilizer plant in Multan, in the east of the country and where the meeting took place. The local press says that the police suspect the possibility that it is a settling of accounts , or a kidnapping for ransom economic, although it does not rule out an act with political in the context of the electoral process. The TTP has decoupled the kidnapping, but had threatened to undermine members of the PPP, which has been one of the main goals of the insurgent terrorist campaign to derail the elections. The PPP led the outgoing government coalition, a liberal and that according to polls released by local media will be replaced by a conservative majority led by the Party of the Muslim League-N of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif .

Also according to the survey, Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI), the Conservative Party and led by former cricketer and local sports idol Imran Khan, is emerging, however, as the group recorded a higher increase in the quotation to the polls. On Tuesday, Khan was wounded in the head after falling into the void from a species of crane that lifted him to a stage located six meters high.

UN concern

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern for the pre-election violence, according to UN spokesman Martin Nesirky.

Ban has sent his condolences to the families of victims who died in the attacks which were white politicians during the campaign.

The UN Secretary General "hopes that all Pakistanis voting peacefully participate, regardless of their religious affiliation , ethnicity or gender, and carry out their civic duty in this important day, "stated Nesirky.

Ban has welcomed Pakistani government's efforts to ensure safety during the day tomorrow and encourage people to vote, especially women .