Pakistan has seldom experienced such passionately contested by-elections as were seen last Sunday in 20 Provincial Assembly constituencies of Pakistan’s largest province, Punjab. The contest was between arch rivals Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) seeking to reclaim the government of Punjab and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which considers Punjab its stronghold and was able to wrest control of the province from PTI barely three months ago. The by-elections, therefore, were not about 20 seats alone, they were about the provincial government which depended on these seats.
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