updated: Dec 11 2020, 15:40 ist
This Sunday, hundreds of thousands of the disaffected and the angry will converge on Lahore, Pakistan’s political nerve centre, where the government of Imran Khan will face another tirade from the rising star in the political firmament, Maryam Nawaz of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and the powerhouse of the Jamiat ul Islami, Maulana Fazlur Rahman.
But unlike the five rallies that preceded Lahore – in Gujranwala, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar and Multan – which saw Opposition anger rise to a crescendo but little else, Lahore could be the game-changer, the tipping point for its drive against Pakistan’s ‘deep state’ and its star protégé, Imran Khan. And it’s not just because the wrecking ball with the names of 11 Opposition parties written on it has been gathering popular momentum as it heads straight for Islamabad and Parliament square.