Casar Calls for Probe of Election Rigging in Wake of US-Backed Coup in Pakistan

Pakistani lawmakers on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif to serve a second term as the country’s prime minister following elections last month that were widely decried as illegitimate, with top officials and the military manipulating the vote and cracking down on the party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan — the nation’s most popular politician. The election of Sharif, the younger brother of…

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