Has this first and only decade of democratisation come to its end?

Any reader of the signs of today would answer the question strongly in the affirmative as many have and continue to do.

In terms of a recent Friday Times’ editorial, it is that the forthcoming election next month will be a manipulated “Selection 2018” where “a massive and unprecedented pre-election rigging exercise” is under way.

New terms, such as ‘judicial martial law’ and ‘judicial imperialism’, have now become part of Pakistan’s public lexicon, just as did ‘political engineering’ in the 1990s. For many Pakistanis, the past is set to become its future, yet again.

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