With Pakistan’s general elections only days away (25 July 2018), the contradictions of the
garrison state’s structure of power are being laid increasingly bare. Serial election winners,
the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan People’s Party, appear to be out of favour
with the powerful military establishment, with three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sent
to jail last week after conviction by an accountability court. Cricketer-turned-politician
Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf appears to be in line for a stint in power. A fresh spate
of terrorist attacks, along with the mainstreaming of prominent religio-political
organisations with militant links, have shed further doubt on how free and fair the polls will
be.
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