February's ugly election fiasco shows that it's only getting harder for the army to prevent political disrupters from upending their plans but, unfortunately for Pakistan's future, they have yet again managed to override public demand for a new direction.
A brief recap: The generals and popular leader Imran Khan decided some time ago they could no longer trust one another. The army then removed Khan from his post as Prime Minister and put him in jail, as it has done to many past Prime Ministers who refused to respect their dominance. He now faces more than 150 criminal charges, all of which he denies.
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