done this is not in the stablished democracy they can hear the votes and sold local people in the philip chism vote for whoever the village strongmen tells them to vote for so this is not in the stop this democracy and i don't think we can pull the elections like the free will fair now mean looking at the candidates why is it that the military appears to favor imran khan. that is a very good question with a very very very useful base one theory is that the sharif sharif family angered the military because they were trying to edge closer towards the arch rival india it's also possible that they'd like iran khan's anti corruption rhetoric the politicians here are notoriously corrupt quite often people say it's a question of who you vote for depending on who embezzled is less of the other candidates the point being everyone embezzles here so those are two theories but in the end it's a question that we should be able to put to the military but unfortunately they don't talk to foreign journalists like us. reporting for us from islamabad good to talk to you. now to some other stories making headlin