Imran casts a long shadow over polling day

Pakistan’s elections on February 8 come after one of the most turbulent periods in the country’s history.

Around 127 million people will go to the polls on the back of a politically and economically choppy 20 months, dating back to the removal of the then-Prime Minister Imran Khan and his governing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party through a no-confidence vote in April 2022.