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Party pressing Nawaz to revisit ‘accountability’ narrative

Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Sept 26th, 202• Insiders say Shehbaz, sons are trying to talk the elder Sharif down• Ex-PM says no changes to elder brother’s homecoming planLAHORE: With his aggressive stance, demanding the accountability of former generals and judges, making some within the party uneasy ahead of his planned return to Pakistan on Oct 21, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif is giving his stated position “a second thought”, party insiders told Dawn on Monday. “Although…

Our house is not in order

By Eric Shahzar in The News,August 27, 2023The writer is an academic based in Oxford and London, UK.An accurate measure of a truly thriving and pluralistic society lies in how it treats its minorities. In Pakistan, a nation grappling with religious extremism, the plight of minorities remains an ever so pressing concern. In Sep 2017, the tragic case of Sharoon Masih, a young student lynched to death simply for drinking water from his Muslim classmate’s…