A US-based analyst says a coalition government in Pakistan will struggle to tackle multiple challenges, the foremost being seeking a new IMF bailout programme after the current arrangement expires in three weeks.
A coalition government “would probably be unstable, weak” and “the big loser … will be the army”, said Marvin Weinbaum, the director of Afghanistan and Pakistan Studies at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC.
“Because the army really has staked its reputation on its ability to deliver this vote.”(Al Jazeera)
