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In a country, where the last police strike was in the 1970s, police protesting publicly and virtually indicting the army for the losses in Peshawar is a very significant development.
While the civilian leadership has a window of opportunity to wrestle back some of the political space lost to the 'hybrid regime', the state of play remains fluid.
Running a super-charged campaign, Khan was able to turn what otherwise would have been a mundane provincial electoral affair into a referendum of sorts over his ouster from the high office.