Pakistan Needs to Get Past 'Lock Him Up' Politics https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-06/pakistan-needs-to-get-... This week, Pakistanis will go to the polls to elect a new National Assembly. The last vote, in the summer of 2018, took place under controversial circumstances: The country’s powerful military was generally perceived to have put its hefty thumb on the electoral scales in order to elevate its preferred candidate, former cricket star Imran Khan. Khan’s main rival, former three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, had been kicked out of office and sent to jail for corruption.