Electioneering is picking up pace in NA-241 Korangi III constituency. If campaigning is anything to judge by, the Mustafa Kamal-led Pak Sarzameen Party has a slight edge over its political rivals.

Its workers, some of them well-experienced partisans of Altaf Hussain’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement, are better charged than that of the MQM-P, Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and the Jamaat-i-Islami contesting under the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal banner.

Workers and voters both note that times have changed.

"The Altaf Hussain era is over when a candidate was rest assured that he would wake up in the morning to learn that he or she has won the election. Now you will have to work really hard to win a seat no matter which party you belong to. You have to show to the constituents what individually or as part of the party you have done for them." —MQM worker

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