Vox Militum beats Vox Populi
People have voted against the military’s political favourites but General Munir still gets to cook up the next coalition government
Pakistanis braved stiff odds on Feb 8 to cast their vote. A strong electoral tsunami, led by young voters, coalesced a distinct anti-army mood with deep anger at economic hardships and a sympathy wave for jailed Imran Khan and his beleaguered PTI. While PML-N ended up as largest federal party (with 75 of 266 direct national assembly seats) but no majority in its home base of Punjab, and Zardari-Bhutto’s PPP claimed 54 seats and won its home province of Sindh, it was independents (mostly) backed by PTI that surprised with over 100 seats.
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