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                   Global Edition | 13 February 2024 
                 
           
                   
                    
                 
           
           
                  Pakistan’s voters headed to the polls last Thursday hoping that an election might deliver something that’s been sorely missing in the country’s politics: stability.

                  It didn’t. Instead, a surprisingly strong showing by PTI - the party of jailed former prime minister and cricket hero Imran Khan - has left the country with a fragmented parliament, with no one party reaching the threshold to govern on their own. The PTI has claimed victory and clearly thinks it has a mandate. So too does rival party PMLN, which placed second in the vote and has a chance of forming a coalition with third place PPP.

                  If it sounds a bit of a mess, that’s because it is. And as Ayesha Jalal notes, it is a mess with consequences. An unstable government will find it harder to pass the kind of economic package needed to pull the country out of its economic quagmire. Moreover, it plays into the hands of Pakistan’s generals who are never that far away from politics, and may relish the prospect of a weak government that will be easier to manipulate.

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