The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has issued a report detailing its assessment of the recently-concluded general election, expressing deep concerns over a decline in fairness scores compared to previous election cycles.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that if the contents of a diplomatic cipher — sent to Islamabad last year by Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US and which former prime minister Imran Khan cited as proof of a conspiracy to remove his government — allegedly published in a US-based news organisation were true, it was tantamount to a “massive crime”.