Pakistan Votes

Pakistan elections
Emilio Morenatti / AP

The Troubled North
A poster for a candidate from the Pashtun Awami National Party hangs on a roadside near Peshawar. The moderate ANP has benefited from a backlash against the religious parties, who, in the 2002 elections, rode a wave of anti-Americanism to success in the Northern provinces, but who are now fractured and squabbling.

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