FOR those who follow the trajectory of Pakistani politics closely, it had seemed a given that the election tribunals formed to adjudicate challenged results from the last general election would prove ineffective, and that the ECP’s announced results would, no matter how controversial, be accepted as default. In past elections, too, it had been observed that election tribunals struggled to deliver justice, and if, by some feat, they were able to do so, so much time had elapsed by then that their intervention seemed meaningless. Still, given the seriousness of the controversies surrounding the 2024 general election........

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