Excerpt from the documentary Insha'Allah Democracy, which screened at Doc NYC Film Festival.
Filmmaker Mohammed Naqvi is about to vote in Pakistan for the first time. When Mo was 19, General Pervez Musharraf staged a coup d’etat that saw him in power until his exile in 2008. With the country growing increasingly unstable and sectarian, Mo faces a difficult choice: should he back a religious hardliner who may persecute minorities like himself or support the secular liberal platform of returning ex-dictator Musharraf? Gaining remarkable access to the charismatic Musharraf, Mo questions if democracy is truly possible in Pakistan.