The PML-N’s mistakes
The PTI’s victory in the Punjab by-polls has invigorated PTI workers who played a big role in the PML–N’s embarrassing defeat in its power base. Many political circles and analysts,…
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…
Why is the PM in election mode?
“IF suicide was not forbidden (haram) I’d go into parliament with explosives and blow it up,” roared a charged Shehryar Afridi, a leading light of the governing PTI and the…
A prisoner of the Sharifs
There is this Urdu couplet that comes to my mind whenever I hear Prime Minister Imran Khan holding forth on his favourite theme of corruption and accountability. Though I am…
How Nawaz and the opposition win 2023
Last week I wrote about how PM Khan’s five key bets can help him and the PTI win 2023. If he wins those five big bets he has made, there…
How PM Khan and PTI win 2023
Prime Minister Imran Khan has a lot more power than his critics may give him credit for, and he has used this power to make five bets that are going…
The PML-N’s change of tack
THE thunder has gone with the change in narrative. It’s no more the military leadership that is the main nemesis. There’s no more talk of storming the citadel. It’s back…
What will PM Khan’s legacy be?
What is Kaptaan’s legacy going to be? It is a question worth asking as the stars begin to line up for Prime Minister Imran Khan in the third year of…
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…
