Pakistan’s voters tell the generals where to put it
Imran Khan’s candidates won the most seats despite heavy-handed attempts to hobble them
NO PARTY OBTAINED a majority in Pakistan’s election on February 8th. But the vote nonetheless produced a clear winner: Imran Khan, the imprisoned former prime minister who was barred from standing and whose party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was subject to a de facto ban.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Generals, rejected”
Asia February 17th 2024
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