The latest Senate election offered a vital insight into Pakistan’s realpolitik: when they really want to do it, our politicians are capable of managing a constitutional crisis without giving any excuse for intervention to the judiciary, army, local terrorists, or any foreign power.The electorate’s brazenly corrupt ways, media’s wild sensationalism, Imran Khan’s naïve idealism, Zardari’s crafty vision, and Nawaz’s primitive alacrity produced gripping drama that, for once, had the happiest possible ending: the appointment of…
The Taming Of The Sharif : edit in The Nation, Mar 15, 2015
The latest Senate election offered a vital insight into Pakistan’s realpolitik: when they really want to do it, our politicians are capable of managing a constitutional crisis without giving any excuse for intervention to the judiciary, army, local terrorists, or any foreign power.The electorate’s brazenly corrupt ways, media’s wild sensationalism, Imran Khan’s naïve idealism, Zardari’s crafty vision, and Nawaz’s primitive alacrity produced gripping drama that, for once, had the happiest possible ending: the appointment of…