A Secularist party can never win in Pakistan...nor can a Communist for that matter because if truth be told, for all intents & purposes, we don't have any party which is either. Baring one of course, which is a racist party so its secularism isn't worth horse pisss !
PTI - the party which was the Pakistan equivalent of Erdogan's AKP....though a bit better, lost - its the party that most of us were supporting !
PML N - the party which is a conservative party with possible, though unproven, linkages with sectarian outfits & is big on wasting money of huge projects whilst people are dying of unsafe drinking water, won !