Salman Rafi Sheikh is a researcher with the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and the author of "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977."
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Sri Lanka will not resolve its political crisis without elections
President Ranil Wickremasinghe is struggling without a public mandate
Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo on Sept. 3: Wickremasinghe is a proxy president in the eyes of protesters. © NurPhoto/Getty Images
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