The formation of a new government that lacks the legitimacy to devise a medium- or long-term strategy to rid the country of its chronic problems is likely to exacerbate Pakistan’s current woes. The new incumbents in power’s recent proclamations indicate a completely distorted grasp of how to achieve the alleged goals.
Without the people’s mandate, they refuse to recognize that they lack the authority to take actions that affect their fate. The rough and naked manner in which the midnight attack was carried out to steal people’s mandates and appoint a criminal group as the country’s new rulers has left an unpleasant taste.
Furthermore, no one is willing to accept the outcome because they have witnessed firsthand how the findings were tampered with, as proven by the ECP uploading the required forms on the website but being forced to erase them within a few hours.
