Pakistanis on Thursday defied deadly violence and the suspension of mobile phone services to queue up and vote in tumultuous national elections, even though many see the polls as neither free nor fair. Long lines were seen in cities like Lahore, in the east, as voting gathered steam in the afternoon after a slow start in the morning. The polling sites were tightly guarded by police and the military after twin bombings by militants a day earlier killed more than two dozen people in the province of Balochistan. The coup-prone South Asian nuclear power with a population of more than 240 million w…