When it comes to Pakistani politics, I’ve found it safer for my emotional well-being to take chants of revolution and promises of change with a giant grain of salt. However in the days leading up to the elections, I got swept up by the waves of enthusiasm. But as we struggle to wrap our minds around the outcome of the elections and reconcile reality with the expectations, aspirations, hopes and dreams associated with the ballot, one question remains.
What’s worse? That the elections were rigged on such a massive scale, or that Pakistan’s “educated class” has completely lost touch with the masses?
