Following the ousting of now-former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan in a vote of no confidence earlier this month by a coalition of opposition parties, and the mass resignation of parliamentary members from his party, all eyes in Pakistan and beyond are now focused on what happens next. There is consensus among all the major political parties that general elections should be held in the near future, but many hold contrasting views on the “election laws”. For now, the newly elected prime minister Shehbaz Sharif faces the momentous task of managing a fragile alliance of competing parties whi…