Even after ‘the breaking news,’ the finance minister didn’t ap­pear wavering. Not only his own family, but the son of Prime Minister She­hbaz Sharif and Shahid Khaqan Abbassi, a former prime minis­ter, would also be paying the ‘su­per tax,’ he had introduced. It wouldn’t yield to the de­mand of earliest possible elec­tions as the former Prime Min­ister, Imran Khan, had zealously been pressing since removed. They prefer to believe that the US had not been feeling com­fortable with ‘nationalist poli­cies’ of Imran Khan. The story, which the former prime minister keeps drumming re­lentlessly, appears to have om­inously deepened divisions in an already polarized society.

Source: The Nation June 25, 2022 16:56 UTC