POMED Notes: Before and After the Pakistani Election

The Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted a two-part, before-and-after discussion on the Pakistani parliamentary elections. On Friday,  Sarwar Bari, Secretary General of Free and Fair Election Network in Islamabad, Pakistan, Staffan Darnolf, Country Director of IFES Pakistan in Islamabad, Osama Siddique, lawyer, activist and Associate Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and Ijaz Shafi Gilani, President, Gallup Pakistan gave remarks ahead of the elections. On Wednesday, executive director of Pakistan Institute Legislative Development and Transparency Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, Democracy International CEO Glenn Cowan, IFES Country Director for Pakistan Staffan Darnolf, and editor of Pakistan’s Daily Times Najam Sethi gave their opinions on the outcomes and activities of Monday’s voting. Rick Barton, co-director of CSIS’s Post-Conflict Resolution Program moderated both discussions.

For the POMED notes for the pre-election analysis, click here.

For the POMED notes for the post-election analysis, click here.