Meddling in politics
WHAT was widely speculated has been confirmed by one of the protagonists himself.
Mustafa Kamal, once MQM mayor of Karachi and now furious critic of his former party, has admitted that the security establishment brokered the already-frayed alliance between his PSP and the MQM-P.
The episode is only one of several in recent days that suggest political engineering of the electoral landscape is once again being taken up in earnest.
Put bluntly, it amounts to a form of pre-poll rigging to manipulate and undermine the democratic process.
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