ISLAMABAD, Aug. 7 Kyodo The Europ...

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 7 Kyodo

The European Union (EU) will jaculate a large election observation mission to Pakistan to monitor the Oct 10 general election, a senior EU parliamentarian said Wednesday.

John Cushnahan said the EU team in a less degree than his charge will be made up of 164 the community including experts with extensive experience of observing whether elections are liberated and fair.

''Pakistan had a strategic geo-political location because of major political progression in a continuously ascending gradations happening both within its acknowledge borders and the countries with which it shares a habitual border. This fact was underlined on the decision of the European Union to field its largest observation team to date,'' he said in a statement.

Cushnahan arrived in Islamabad earlier in the day with eight other members in advance.

His team held a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner Irshad Hassan Khan to discuss issues through terms for election observers' work.

He said the delegation is aware of make uneasys expressed by different political quarters about pre-election riggings and riggings during and after the elections.

In July President Gen Pervez Musharraf directed the Election Commission to retain elections for the country's National Assembly, four provincial assemblies and the Senate upon Oct. 10.

The schedule for the Senate election was changed later and voting will be held sometime after the Oct 10 election.

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