Five challenges for the PM in 2021
Prime Minister Imran Khan recently expressed surprise at how difficult governing has been. He knows better than to pretend that he was surprised. The single most important characteristic he has…
PML-N vs PTI: the economic scorecard
If we start comparing the overall economic environment between the PML-N’s last government and the PTI’s current regime, we see that the PML-N’s five-year period could be summed up as…
The rise of Maryam Nawaz
Whether one likes her or hates her, one cannot ignore the phenomenal rise of Maryam Nawaz on the political stage in Pakistan. For her supporters, Maryam represents the hopes and…
Can PM Khan survive the PDM?
People don’t want complicated answers. They want simple ones. This is for two reasons. First, complicated answers take time, discipline and patience to process and understand. No one has time,…
PTI and PML-N vs inertia
The PML-N is, above all, a political party seeking to win power. Its leaders clearly believe that the best way to win power is to promise the people of Pakistan…
CPEC after Nawaz’s ouster
The Chinese government has made it clear that disqualification of Nawaz Sharif is an "internal affair of Pakistan" and "it will not impact China-Pakistan strategic cooperative partnership involving 'One Belt,…
Partly Facetious: Former ministers receive former PM
"Former federal ministers were at the airport to receive the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif but none of the incumbent ministers were there." "Former to former, hunh!" "Don't minimize Nawaz…
Sharifs still have a future
This is apropos a Business Recorder op-ed "Whither is the Nawaz League bound?" carried by the newspaper yesterday. The writer, Saida Fazal, has argued that "meanwhile, the question agitating the minds of his party…
Imran ‘quietly confident’ he will be PM
Cricket legend Imran Khan said he was "quietly confident" of victory in a general election this month and that as prime minister, he would drive an anti-corruption and anti-poverty campaign…
PML-N Quaid’s ‘alternative facts’
Ousted prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif addressed a large public gathering the other day in Swat where he vented his anger at his arch rival, Imran Khan, calling him 'Ilzam…
