Part I Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Ayesha Ijaz Khan Elections 2008 were so promising for the people of Pakistan because not only had their anti-dictatorship, pro-democracy message been recorded. It's also because the two largest parties they had voted into power, the PPP and PML-N, historical adversaries, had agreed to work together, we thought, in the larger interest of the nation. While cynics routinely mocked the coalition, vowing that it would not work, many of us expressed hope in the possibility that politicians had suffered at the hands of the establishment in Pakistan previously and perhaps learned their lessons. It is no secret that Pakistan is going through an exceptionally testing time. With militancy on the rise, a respected judiciary prevented from carrying out its duties for over a year now, rampant inflation and...
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