ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's economic crisis is taking center stage in the last stretch of the country's election campaign, which has been marred by a repressive atmosphere and back-to-back jail sentences handed down to former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Voters will be going to the polls on Thursday under severe and persistent economic pressure. Year-on-year inflation in January was 28%, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Fuel prices were increased again last week. And citizens are expected to be hit with huge electricity bills this summer.
