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Pakistan PM Imran Khan heads towards bigger political challenge © Provided by The Times of India
ISLAMABAD: Internal rifts have appeared in Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) after 40 dissident lawmakers led by an estranged party leader, Jahangir Khan Tareen, formed a forward bloc to confront the ruling party over mismanagement in government.
The formation of a new faction has inflicted a deep wound on Khan and his party. The matter appears to be so grave that the PM and his associates are avoiding public comment because they fear causing further damage to the party. Ever since Imran Khan became PM he has dealt with political opponents with an iron fist to deny them space to challenge his authority. Now he finds himself in the midst of uncontrollable political turmoil in the country’s corridors of power.
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated trends in civic spaces underway before 2020 in Pakistan, reinforcing the state’s on-going deep discomfort with rights-based actors and mobilizations whilst allowing the divisive rhetoric and mass gathering of sectarian forces to flourish. The crisis afforded some new opportunities, too. Diverse interest groups gained recognition of some rights or tried to stave off further hardship during the economic downturn. Digital spaces became an increasingly powerful arena for activism and dissent. They were also targeted by security agencies, as women journalists who reported against the government’s narrative on its Covid-19 response discovered. This report shows how different actors responded to the pandemic in ways that affect civic spaces. The research identified areas of civil society which underwent some forms of public mobilization, whether through articulating new or ongoing claims, forming new associations, or using innovative strategie
Daily Times
May 6, 2021
Nawaz-Sharif-2As the balloon of Pakistan Democratic Alliance (PDM) stands deflated with parting of ways by PPP and the ANP, the PML-N supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is convinced that his homecoming at this moment will not help at all and that it’s better for him to keep hiding behind his sickness, for the time being.
No updates on the medical condition of Nawaz Sharif has been released by his family or the party for quite some time now. The former prime minister has also hardly almost any political statement in this period. Nonetheless, given the hard hitting speeches Nawaz Sharif used to make via video link at the meetings of the PDM as well as his pictures of taking a cup of tea or coffee outside his London residence suggest that the former prime minister is in good health and apparently not returning home just to evade accountability.
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