ISAS Briefs

However unlikely it might have seemed from time to time, Pakistan's forward movement along the path of democracy now appears to be inexorable. It has demonstrated the perfect example of the very British art of 'muddling through'. Elements of uncertainty still remain, as they always do in a game of cricket that its people take to as duck to water. But barring an act of God, elections will take place on 11 May 2013. For the first time in its history an elected civilian government has completed its full term in office and a peaceful transfer of power, or a continuation of the same, is widely expected.