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MMNS Gone... Options for voting next. View from Sargodha

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It has turned ugly, uglier than initially expected, by me. Naïve me? May be, but 2008 and 2013 elections were not so visibly handled as this one.  The establishment is on throat of the N in the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN). It is hard to imagine if they will even tolerate any remnants of this party even. Political forces stay in contest, one way or the other. Like, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), that hanged around, as PPPP, and various other suffixes. But the case is different, situation is different,players are different, and essentially, the army chief is different too. Will MMNS spend 10 years in prison and come back as a stronger politician? Impossible. Will he wait for a better time to come back to Pakistan and stay in exile? May be. He has at least few options left, fewer than what he had some time back. He lost this case due to sheer incomtence and stupidity. What are my options? As a note to myself, the current situation is as follows