[Reader-list] Pakistan: Elections and Beyond

[Zulfiqar Shah]

The recent elections in Pakistan were strategically important, because the people of the anarchy-laden country had to choose their fate out of highly skewed options.  For a country where no civil government could complete its constitutional term as well as transfer power through holding free, fair, and non-manipulative elections, the elections can certainly be termed as a remarkable achievement. Such a historical yet, incomplete task that should have been accomplished immediately after 1947 has been attained after sixty-five years, albeit in a half-hearted manner. News reports, public reaction, social media, visual evidences as well as observations by the EU mission and civil society monitors indicate that the elections were “neither free, nor fair and non-manipulated” in many parts of the country, especially in Sindh, Baluchistan, South Punjab and a larger part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). That notwithstanding, they herald an important chapter in
 Pakistan’s history.    


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