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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. (Photo: AP)

PM Imran... Or Sanjrani option? Or can Nawaz still cut a deal?

Now, even if Nawaz returns and sets the campaign trail on fire, the pieces are in place to thwart a last-minute PML(N)...

9 July 2018 12:00 AM IST

Opinion

Can Shahbaz, Imran, Zardari, Nawaz get their acts together?

To be a leader, to be perceived as a leader, you have to be a bit brash, ready to fight, willing to take on and take...

2 July 2018 1:12 AM IST

Imran Khan claimed that people will be given the party tickets on the basis of merit and popularity in their respective constituencies. (Photo: File)

Opinion

Imran's PTI will have to build momentum to get 10 million votes

The PTI will need to come up with some compelling reasons for those voters because the party has a whole lot of ground...

25 Jun 2018 5:10 AM IST

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Opinion

Dissolution: The first big test for Nawaz League

Nawaz turning up the volume to a full 10 had the potential to blow up all previous electoral calculations.

11 Jun 2018 4:59 AM IST

Opinion

The crisis in Pakistan is real and multifaceted

Sixty per cent wasn't good enough when 90 or 100 per cent could be had through brute force.

4 Jun 2018 5:44 AM IST

Opinion

A shuddering dysfunction: Another Zia looms in Pak

Controlled democracy was working just fine and the possibility of a breakthrough with India wasn't exactly high.

28 May 2018 12:12 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

Opinion

For Imran, Nawaz's exit is a big boost

Imran, Shahbaz, Zardari, the Independents and the boys all now face a significantly altered electoral landscape.

22 May 2018 6:41 AM IST

Pakistans interior minister Ahsan Iqbal was on Sunday shot at and injured in a suspected assassination bid after he addressed a rally in Punjab province, police said. (Photo: File)

Opinion

Pak polls: May the least-worst man win

Political violence is a familiar scar and around elections, an open wound.

14 May 2018 5:23 AM IST

$\I have not yet forgotten what they (Sharifs) have done to Benazir Bhutto (his wife) and me. We forgave them and signed Charter of Democracy, but still Mian sahib (Nawaz) betrayed me and went to court in memogate in order to label me a traitor,\ Asif Ali Zardari said. (Photo: AFP)$ Opinion