21.   The resolution claimed the administration openly influenced voters in favour the opponents of PPP candidates and that polling agents were intimidated.

22.   Tony Miller, a white farmer who belongs to a network formed to protect MDC polling agents, was also threatened.

23.   They replied that the polling agent had quoted her as making them.

24.   Under questioning Mahanta admitted he was an activist of the right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP party and had worked as a polling agent during elections.

25.   Wickremesinghe said his polling agents were beaten up and chased away but they did not put up a counter attack.

26.   MQM senator Nasreen Jalil blamed the breakaway MQM-Haqiqi for the abduction of Mohammed Hanif, a polling agent in Korangi eastern district.

27.   MQM senator Nasreen Jalil said Mohammed Hanif, a polling agent in the eastern district of Korangi, and brother of an MQM candidate, had been tortured.

28.   Opposition parties said their polling agents reported widespread irregularities, including possible ballot stuffing and vote buying.

29.   Police said League polling agent Ismail Hossain was shot dead inside a polling centre in Sandwip Island and two militias who tried to resist the attackers were injured.

30.   Police later took the polling agents to Southerton, Muzenda said.