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The judicial ouster of an elected prime minister in controversial circumstances was always likely to generate political uncertainty. But as Nawaz Sharif prepares to return to Lahore via the GT Road and an unseemly war of words continues between the PTI and PML-N, the political landscape is beginning to appear dangerously unsettled. Much may depend on the course that Mr Sharif decides to take in the days and weeks ahead. At least in words, the ousted prime minister has been circumspect and seemingly focused on democratic continuity and stability. Speaking to media representatives on Saturday, Mr Sharif did not lash out at the verdict against him and expressed a willingness to engage in dialogue with all political parties, including the PML-N’s opponents. The Charter of Democracy signed by Mr Sharif and Benazir Bhutto in 2006 was also referenced. Yet, Mr Sharif’s imminent return to Lahore is shaping up to be an intensely political episode in which the PML-N may try and flau...

​Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has agreed to a proposal for establishing Chinese language centres in Peshawar, Abbottabad, Haripur and Mansehra in the backdrop of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Presiding over the 36th meeting of the board of directors of Frontier Education Foundation at the Chief Minister Secretariat here, Mr Khattak said that in the second phase such centres would be established in the southern districts and Malakand division that would enable the youth to benefit from CPEC and contribute to the process of development in the province. According to a statement issued here, provincial minister for finance Muzaffar Said, advisor to chief minister on higher education Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, secretary higher education and others attended the meeting. The chief minister approved the release of Rs284 million grant to the Frontier Education Foundation. He also approved the upgradation of posts from BPS-16 to BPS-17 to the master’s degree holders and scholarships...

Two years after launching the metro bus service between Rawalpindi and Islamabad, the provincial government has started preparing standard operating procedures (SOPs) to hire drivers and impart training to them and to ensure contractors carrying out repair work on the elevated track took precautionary measures to avoid any accident. The PML-N government introduced the bus service between the twin cities at a cost of Rs44.84 billion but the death of a female medical student on the track on April 29, 2017, exposed the performance of the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) and the Metro Bus Authority (MBA) as regard to the training of the drivers. Sameera, 19, a student of Shifa College of Medicine, was travelling to Islamabad when the driver pulled emergency brakes near the Rehmanabad bus station apparently due to some ongoing construction work on the track there. Due to the impact, the bus hit a pole after which its door flung open throwing the student into the road. She was then ...

There is the letter of the law and there is good politics. There is recovering from a legal blow and there is doubling down on mistakes. There are the Sharifs and there is good sense. In the days since Nawaz Sharif’s judicial ouster, the PML-N has hunkered down and devised a new political strategy: the rule of the Sharifs as far as the eye can see and potentially beyond. Or, as Saad Rafique has boasted, remove one Sharif and the party will bring a second, third and fourth Sharif to replace him. It is a political party’s right to choose its leader and in the controversial circumstances of Mr Sharif’s dismissal, it was inevitable that the ousted prime minister’s preferences would dominate the succession question. But the utter myopia of the Sharifs is dismaying and politically worrying. Three decisions the PML-N has had to make since Mr Sharif’s ouster and not one of them has been necessary or wise. The first is to instal Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as a stopgap ...