Pakistan’s election will be held on the 18th – Monday week – and the campaign has already proved a violent one.
“Gujrat is a district where violence and bloodshed during the election campaigning and polling is considered a routine matter,” Iqtidar Gilani writes in the Nation. “Display of weapons as a show of strength is also common. Almost all the candidates are accompanied by large number of guards carrying sophisticated weapons.”
But there is at least one compensation:
According to local people the crime rate especially the road robbery incidents have recently decreased due to the engagement of criminals and proclaimed offenders in election campaign of different candidates.
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David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
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