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PM Shehbaz Sharif’s prime challenges

The best thing that could have happened to Shehbaz Sharif on Monday, April 11, 2022 is not that he was voted to the office of the prime minister of Pakistan…

Challenges for Shehbaz Sharif

It is indeed extremely disconcerting that the challenges that face Shehbaz Sharif’s government today are only different in terms of intensity rather than substance from those that faced the PPP-led…

Election 2024: a new Sharif era?

Since Imran Khan’s mess-ups are not as forgivable as the wrongs done by Nawaz Sharif circa 99 (and even circa 2017-18), the rejuvenation of the Sharif family’s era becomes an…

Shehbaz appoints 10 new HEC members

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed 10 new members against the vacant positions in the Higher Education Commission (HEC). The HEC, which is a regulatory body, takes all important policy…

Tests for PM Shehbaz

The ouster of Imran Khan may have created a ripple of excitement among the workers of the PMNL-N but if the party fails to deliver, this euphoria will soon turn…

Keeping PM Sharif up at night

“Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose/ To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;/ And in the calmest and most stillest night,/ With all appliances and means…

Shehbaz-led narrative needs a revisit

Pakistani public today faces a host of economic difficulties that can be laid at the doorstep of those who governed this country — the status quo parties (Pakistan People’s Party…

Shehbaz ‘speed’ struggling?

The newly-formed government did not swallow the bitter pill of increasing petroleum prices. The political pressure generated by power shows by PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) has made the coalition government defensive.…

Damned if Shehbaz does and damned if…

Shehbaz Sharif won two more votes than the required 172 to become the country’s Prime Minister on 11 April and has ever since struggled to not only convince his own…