Pakistan has a new government in power. The country held a delayed, flawed election on February 8, 2024, marked by a pre-poll crackdown on its most popular political party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), arrests of thousands of PTI members and senior leadership, and knocking the party name and election symbol off the ballot. Election day was marred by internet and cell service shutdowns. Voters showed up and cast their ballots anyway, but an unexplained delay in the result and reported discrepancies in vote tabulations further mired the election in controversy. Behind it all was the military’s usual playbook of propping up the party it favors, and stacking the deck against the party it does not.