For the next episode in our Road to ‘24 series, Beyond the Indus host Tushar Shetty sat down with Michael Kugelman and Kunwar Khuldune Shahid to break down Pakistan’s chaotic election campaign. Kugelman is the director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and Shahid is a Pakistan-based correspondent for The Diplomat.
Taking place in the backdrop of an ever-growing economic and security crisis, the Pakistan election is shadowed by the conflict between the arrested-yet-still popular Imran Khan and a military establishment that is determined to see him out of power. With the return of exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to lead the PML-N and the machinations of Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari of the PPP, this election will set the tone for Pakistan’s fragile democracy for many years to come.
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