Post-Election Pakistan Is on a Knife-Edge

Post-Election Pakistan Is on a Knife-Edge

The just-concluded general elections in Pakistan will go down as the most controversial in the country’s troubled political history. The crude manner in which the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) withheld and then announced results on the evening of February 9, after an inexplicably long delay, has rendered the entire electoral exercise a farce. Though … Read more

Pakistan’s Imran Khan Gets 14-year Prison Term

Pakistan’s Imran Khan Gets 14-year Prison Term

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in prison each for corruption, his lawyer and prison officials said, a day after another special court convicted Khan of leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence. The latest conviction and sentencing were Khan’s third since … Read more