8 Flagrant Ways the U.S-Backed Government in Pakistan Is Subverting the Election

A growing body of evidence points to election manipulation and political interference by the Pakistani military.

Pakistan was supposed to go to polls last year .

The military has ruled from the shadows, trying to delay the inevitable elections while trying to ensure that the massively popular former prime minister Khan and his party Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf , or PTI , do not come back to power.

A local electoral official complained in a letter circulated to the Election Commission of Pakistan that key software used in managing elections was behaving oddly.

The election management system was built by the National Database and Registration Authority , a government department that is usually headed by a civilian but since last year has been run by a general in the military.

As long as the military has direct control of NADRA , it controls all the systems used to administer elections and transmit their results.

In the week leading up to the elections, Khan has been sentenced to a cumulative 31 years in prison.

His political party confronts the imminent risk of outright prohibition, with his motley crew of candidates on the run, evading authorities, attempting to canvass for votes clandestinely (and even using AI ) Yet, PTI has resisted calls to boycott the election.