The Pindi commissioner has come out and said that the entire district was rigged on his directions and he cannot have this on his conscience. He has then said the army is not to blame and all the onus of rigging falls upon the Chief Election Commissioner and the Chief Justice of Pakistan.

In accusing some and absolving others while becoming a fall guy in the twilight of his career, the commissioner has still told too much of the truth for it to be convenient to those he may have thought he was helping.

That’s the thing about using truth as a weapon. It can only set you free. It isn’t very useful for precision bombing and causes a lot of collateral damage — perhaps the fear of that very outcome has led to access to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) being disrupted countrywide.

We are also told that a deal has been reached — a new government comprising everyone other than the party which received the most votes from the people will now be serving them. Shehbaz Sharif, being the joint candidate for prime minister, also means that a full page ‘story’ [which was actually a paid advertisement] carried in all Pakistani newspapers has seemingly bounced — the fourth coming of the saviour, Nawaz Sharif, is no longer upon us.

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