The posthumous poll

摘要

On a lofty platform, out of suicide-bomb range, Shahbaz Sharif, a leader of Pakistan's second opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) or pml (n), promises poor Lahoris change. "Our leaders have been buying themselves bullet-proof cars and doing nothing for the people!" he thunders. A thousand men-about half the number expected to turn up to a dusty bazaar in the city-roar in approval. Then Mr Sharif is gone: whisked away by a motorcade that may include the two bullet-proof cars given to the pml-n by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.