Cricketer-in-Chief
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You ever want to just turn your entire phone screen like a specific color, like maybe |
| 0:05.2 | your favorite color is green and you're like, man, this screen would look so much better |
| 0:09.0 | if it were just totally green right now. |
| 0:11.9 | There's an app for that. |
| 0:12.9 | Turns out, it's Uber. |
| 0:14.6 | You can learn more at uber.com slash moving forward. |
| 0:25.2 | Here are a few things you need to know to understand the historic election that just happened |
| 0:29.2 | in Pakistan. |
| 0:33.8 | Pakistan is a young country. |
| 0:35.1 | It's just a couple of weeks shy of 71 years old. |
| 0:39.0 | It came into being because Muslims on the Indian subcontinent wanted their own country. |
| 0:43.2 | They didn't want to be a part of India. |
| 0:45.1 | And ever since, Pakistan has basically been beefing with India. |
| 0:50.1 | And also struggling with democracy. |
| 0:52.6 | Just last year, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif was ousted by the country's |
| 0:56.3 | Supreme Court. |
| 0:57.3 | And a few weeks ago, he was thrown in prison for corruption, which brings us back to yesterday's |
| 1:02.7 | historic election. |
| 1:03.7 | Well, it's a historic election because it marks only the second time that there's been |
| 1:12.5 | a transfer of power from one civilian government to the next. |
| 1:17.2 | It marks a little over 10 years since Pakistan has had direct military rule. |
| 1:22.6 | There was a peaceful transfer of civilian government, which makes it a democratic milestone. |
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