RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal spoke to political analyst Ayesha Seddiqa (@iamthedrifter):
"My fear is that, you know like in the 1970's when Zulifikar Ali Bhutto, [NOTE: Pakistan's former prime minister and president] he got people excited, brought them out, they voted for him. I mean and offered change. Change didn't happen then because nobody had taught people a sense of responsibility. I mean people should be made aware of not just their rights but also their duties and responsibilities and bringing change. My fear is that people's attitudes are still the same. So we may be expecting change without contributing anything to change."
"I think the next government will not be a very strong coalition government. It will be a fairly weak government. It will be a hung parliament which means that the military will have its say in terms of negotiating 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan and the war on terror."
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We will have a short item from Abubakar Siddique (follow @Sid_Abu) on this topic shortly.
PPP & JI candidates while sitting in front of polling station #70 in lower Dir, stop women from voting. via Shad Begum
