PAKISTAN ELECTIONS 2024
NAVIGATING THE IMPACT ON PAKISTAN'S DEMOCRACY
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 | 6.15pm UK | 11.15pm Pakistan
CLEMENT HOUSE (CLM) 3.02
HYBRID
The recent general elections in Pakistan have been marred by controversy over its official results, with accusations of vote-rigging irregularities. This event will discuss the implications of this election for Pakistan's fragile democracy, and how it may be strengthened.
SPEAKERS: Salman Akram Raja (@salmanAraja; online) is a lawyer in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and contested the recent elections as a candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party; Dr Ayesha Siddiqa (@iamthedrifter) is Senior Fellow in War Studies, King's College London, and is author of Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy (2007; 2016).
DISCUSSANT: Dr Zahid Mumtaz (@zahid36330) is Fellow in the Department of Social Policy at LSE; his research interests are in international social & public policy, with a focus on Pakistan.
CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).
This event is in collaboration with the Department of Social Policy, LSE.
Please click here if you would like to attend in person at LSE; and please click here if you would like to attend online.
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