Nawaz Sharif
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A Pakistani Wedding That Refused Not to Be Indian
X.T.M reads the wedding of Nawaz Sharif’s grandson, with Indian designers and Indic styling, as evidence of Indic soft power. He argues that Pakistani weddings show continuity of a subcontinental…
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An Electoral Earthquake in Pakistan
Omar Ali reads Pakistan’s February 2024 election as a shock to the army, which he says engineered Imran Khan’s rise in 2018 and removal in 2021, and credits Khan with…
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Browncast: Ambassador Kamran Shafi on Benazir, Nawaz Sharif, Military Rule, etc
Omar Ali talks to Kamran Shafi, a former army officer, columnist, Benazir Bhutto’s press secretary and ambassador to Cuba, about Benazir, Nawaz Sharif and military rule, with a voice-message postscript…
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Pakistan Elections 2018
Omar Ali previews Pakistan’s July 2018 election, arguing that the army, through its intelligence agencies and ISPR, has spent a year and a half campaigning against Nawaz Sharif and his…
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Important WhatsApp Forward on the State of Pakistani politics
X.T.M says he stands with the Sharifs against the army, then reproduces a WhatsApp forward alleging a plan to install Imran Khan and his allies, with offensive remarks by PTI…
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Croatia..
X.T.M, writing after a week away at a machine-learning conference, says Croatia’s World Cup run shows a cohesive nation, that Pakistan must avoid Yugoslavia’s fate, and that he is impressed…
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Political Engineering in Pakistan. The Military View
Omar Ali posts the first part of Hamid Hussain’s essay on political engineering in Pakistan, which sets out the army’s view after Nawaz Sharif’s July 2017 disqualification, alleging military hands…
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The Conundrum that is Husain Haqqani
A reader profile of Husain Haqqani, requested by AnAn, uses public information and two witnesses to argue he is hard to call an opportunist since many Pakistani politicians changed course,…
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New low in civil-military relations in Pakistan
Hamid Hussain outlines, for non-Pakistani readers, the background to the strain in Pakistan’s civil-military relations in 2017, setting the friction against its history and the military’s long role in the…
