Last leg of the campaignHopes that Nawaz might tone down his anti-judiciary rhetoric in the last leg of the election campaign have clearly turned out false. Now, PM Abbasi has put the cabinet’s full weight behind his party chief’s position as well, talking about unacceptable decisions, red lines and even associating the Lodhran result, somehow, with a people’s rejection of the Panama Papers verdict. That would hold true all the more in light of the NAB references coming full circle sooner rather than later. Sadly, once more the hottest debate in an election year is far removed from the basic needs of the common people. And economy we have the largest deficit in history just as foreign aid, just like political space, is being squeezed.

Source: Pakistan Today February 19, 2018 07:27 UTC