[Patrick Appel]
Juan Cole on the elections in Pakistan:
Bottom line, the Pakistani public has demonstrated a dislike of extremism, including religious extremism, awarding a plurality of seats in the national legislature to secular parties and the rest to right-of-center parties, but roundly rejecting the fundamentalists.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/02/pakistan-rejects-fundamentalism/219812/
