At Informed Comment: Global Affairs, Manan Ahmed, whose profile says he is “finishing up his dissertation on Islam in South Asia at the University of Chicago,” offers “a few quick thoughts” about the Pakistan elections.
Among them:
“No great surprise, the Islamist parties lost — and lost heavily. In the northwestern regions, they lost to the secular, center-left Awami National Party (ANP) by huge margins. This should be a clear sign to the U.S. policymakers that their understanding for Pakistan’s possible futures is not the reductive and wrong, Musharraf or Mullah.”
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