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Monday, 16 May 2016

Pakistan. Apathy of electoral reforms (Furkan Ali, South Asia Monitor)

Three years have passed since the brothers Sharif stood gleefully on their Model Town residence terrace shortly before midnight on a balmy Saturday night. That night, they presumably looked ahead towards five years at the helm with cautious optimism. Optimism — on the back of their emphatic victory; and caution —- well, they’d been there before and knew that things don’t always quite work out