The story so far:Pakistan’s recent election was considered a crucial one that would lead to a stable government with a clear mandate, end political instability, and start a process of political healing at the national level, especially in Punjab. The Establishment would have wanted the PML-N to win, especially in Punjab, and expected its pre-election political engineering to dent the …
The three-time PM’s party fell short in the election, as Imran Khan’s candidates emerged on top. Almost all of the remaining seats in Punjab, the bastion of Sharif’s PMLN, went to candidates backed by former PM Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf — a party that experts believed had been decimated by targeted political and legal attacks in recent months. But, said …
A host of important political issues loom in Pakistan in a seemingly decisive phase, in the ensuing weeks of June and July 2023. These include the timing of elections, both of the National and Provincial Assemblies, formation of caretaker administrations and their duration, the imminent arrest/disqualification of former prime minister Imran Khan, ways of circumventing judicial relief to him, the …
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