FEATURE: MMA looking for upswing in Karachi
(WorldNews Pakistan)

FOR 45-year-old Rashid Hasan, the July 25 polls offer nothing different from any of the several elections that have been held since 1993, when he cast the first vote of his life. Hasan, who holds a management position at a school in Karachi, dismisses the fact that in the elections held between 1993 and 2013, his favourite party the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) - which is now a part of the recently-revived alliance of five religio-political parties the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) - had little chance of victory against the erstwhile formidable Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). Why though? Hasan and several people who agree with his political views prefer to vote for candidates who they believe have a...