• Fears of poll violence in Pakistan. Tens of millions of Pakistanis will go to the polls on Wednesday for a tightly contested national election that the military is shaping and several militant groups are violently opposing. Even so, many wonder if voting will be safe. The election will transfer power from one civilian government to another for only the second time in the country’s 70-year history. It pits an incumbent party, whose leader is in prison, against a rising party led by a former cricket player many see as allied to the military.

Source: New York Times July 23, 2018 20:05 UTC