There’s a political traffic jam on Islamabad’s D-Chowk and no one knows when or how it will clear. Will the PTI ride out the storm of public resentment over rising inflation and governance drift? Can the opposition get its act together to capitalise on the situation? And what is the establishment thinking? Eos takes a …
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Veteran politicians Afrasiab Khattak, Bushra Gohar, Jamila Gilani join Dawar’s party / Manzoor Pashteen, Ali Wazir distance from NDM, stay with PTMISLAMABAD: Pashtoon Tahaffuz Movement suffered a major shock on Wednesday as its vocal leader and Member of the National Assembly from North Waziristan Mohsin Dawar parted ways and announced to launch his new party, National …
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Read The Diplomat, Know The Asia-PacificWhile Khan has lost the prime minister’s office, his core base of supporters has not abandoned him. Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan listen to the speech of their leader during an anti government rally, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, April 21, 2022.First as a cricketer and now as a …
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On April 12, 2022, Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, appeared on DawnNews‘ program “News Wise” to analyze the long-term impacts of the political changes in Pakistan. Najam argues that April 9, 2022, in Pakistan – the day in which Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted in a …
Sumaira FH Published June 06, 2022 | 10:20 AM ISLAMABAD, Jun 6 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 6th Jun, 2022 ) :Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Rana Maqbool Ahmed Monday criticized that the country was facing economic crisis due to ineffective policies of previous government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and ex prime minister Imran Khan‘s …
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Diaa Hadid Pakistan’s turbulent politics took another turn Monday when the parliament elected a new prime minister. It came after the former Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence motion.DANIEL ESTRIN, HOST: Pakistan’s turbulent politics took another turn today when the parliament elected a new prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif. It came after the …
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KARACHI: What began as an act of abounding generosity for car owners in the last weeks of the PTI government has now turned into a wholesale raid on the national exchequer.The fountain of borrowed money is about to run dry, yet the coalition government is still dragging its feet on the reversal of massive fuel …
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For those of us who remember, and for those of us who have been told by persons older than us, there was a time when politics of ideology existed in Pakistan. In the early days of the PPP, after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto came to power, there was talk of land reforms, of providing basic amenities …
Read The Diplomat, Know The Asia-PacificWhat does the future hold for Pakistan?Podcast hosts Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) and Katie Putz (@LadyPutz) are joined by Mohammad Taqi (@mazdaki), a columnist for The Wire, to discuss Pakistan’s April 2022 political crisis, which led to the end of Imran Khan’s tenure as prime minister. The podcast covers the domestic …
Pakistan will “turn into Sri Lanka” if former prime minister Imran Khan is arrested and the new government will be responsible for that, former interior minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has warned.Rasheed, while addressing a press conference in Faisalabad on Sunday, said that the incumbent coalition government had become directionless and was unable to handle the …
