“Pakistan polls: Having lost its prestige, the Army has a few ways ahead”, First Post, February 10, 2024:

“So on a dug-up pitch, Imran Khan’s roaring independents, as good a name as any for an IPL team, have reversed the ball and clean-bowled the Army.

However, this match is playing out in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the third umpire is General Asim Munir, and for him, clean bowling is not going to be good enough.

However, the verdict and its underlying message—that an Imran Khan in jail sentenced for over twenty years, his party dismembered and not allowed to contest elections, without significant funding, and with a gun on its head is returning with a huge verdict—is a lightning bolt for the Pakistani military establishment. The narrative is clear: this election was a farce. In a fair battle, Khan was looking at a landslide that would bury not just the opposition but the military…..”

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