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PMLN-led allies expected to win, PTI may lose polls: EIU

By Rafiq Mangat in The News, December 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: An election will be held in early 2024, at which the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) expects a victory for the coalition, led by the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN), under former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, “with help from the military, despite widespread discontent with the government’s austerity measures”. The EIU says in its assessment the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party will lose. “Domestic protests will intensify,…