Under the dizzying lights and gleaming monuments of Pakistan's cultural capital Lahore, Sidra Bilal's mind drifts to her rural hometown, a backwater of broken promises that led her to abstain from this month's election.
"They're as different from each other as the sky is from the earth," said the 27-year-old, who relocated to Lahore six years ago from the hardscrabble town of Head Balloki, 50 kilometres (30 miles) away.
