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Joe STENSON

Pakistan Election Won't End Strife, Warns Rights Warden

Supporters of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party at a campaign rally in Lahore on January 28 (Credit: AFP)

Pakistan's preeminent rights activist describes the upcoming election as a messy melodrama staged by an emboldened military, unlikely to bring down the curtain on a cast of crises plaguing the country.

Millions of people will vote in polls in less than two weeks, in a campaign marred by allegations of pre-vote rigging with the opposition heavily suppressed.

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