As election campaign ends in Pakistan, many lament Imran Khan’s absence
Al JazeeraLittle excitement in Pakistan’s second largest city as campaigning for the February 8 vote, tainted by the ex-PM’s imprisonment, ends. Lahore, Pakistan – Shayan Bhatti is among hundreds of people praying inside the shrine of Ali al-Hajveri in Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city and the capital of the country’s politically crucial Punjab province. But the vote has been tainted by the absence of Khan, a former cricketing icon, and allegations of rigging by the “establishment” – a euphemism for Pakistan’s powerful military that has directly ruled over the South Asian country for nearly three decades. Sharif’s main rival in the constituency is Yasmin Rashid, a former provincial minister from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party who, like hundreds of her colleagues, has been in jail since May last year following a crackdown by the then government, headed by Sharif’s younger brother Shehbaz Sharif. “The way this entire campaign took place, nobody in their right mind can call it a fair election,” Rana Kashif, a lawyer and PTI supporter, told Al Jazeera.
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