Pakistan cuts mobile service on election day, PTI slams 'cowardly act'

Outages in name of security fuel suspicion over polls' legitimacy

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Poll workers walk past police officers outside a voting station in Peshawar on Feb. 8. © Reuters

ADNAN AAMIR, Contributing writer

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan suspended mobile services across the country on Thursday just as voters went to the polls for the country's general elections, adding to the controversy swirling around the process.

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