{"id":61877,"date":"2024-02-14T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/13\/pakistan-election-imran-khan-military-nawaz-sharif-coalition-government"},"modified":"2024-02-14T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T18:35:00","slug":"election-turmoil-leaves-pakistan-facing-weak-and-unpopular-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61877","title":{"rendered":"Election turmoil leaves Pakistan with a weak and unpopular coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government will be formed by Nawaz Sharif\u2019s party but it may not survive long given the popularity of the jailed Imran Khan\u2019s PTI<\/p>\n<p>It was mid-afternoon on Pakistan\u2019s election day, sources say, when military intelligence began to realise that things on the ground were not going as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile services, including the internet, had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/08\/pakistan-election-phone-service-suspended-country-goes-to-polls\">suspended across the country<\/a> on the pretext of security issues. Those aware of the decision-making said the real reason was to keep voter turnout low, making the results much easier for Pakistan\u2019s powerful military to \u201cmanage\u201d and, most importantly, keep supporters of the former prime minister Imran Khan away from the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/13\/pakistan-election-imran-khan-military-nawaz-sharif-coalition-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government will be formed by Nawaz Sharif\u2019s party but it may not survive long given the popularity of the jailed Imran Khan\u2019s PTIIt was mid-afternoon on Pakistan\u2019s election day, sources say, when military intelligence began to realise that things on th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[359,813,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-nawaz-sharif","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61885,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61877\/revisions\/61885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}