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Hold on... It was establishment which just had to wait for the next elections instead of engineering another coup. PTI's popularity was relatively low. They saw the potential for it to go up as he was starting to bring populist economic decisions into play and combined with other bold moves on...

Don't think you read my post. There's a massive difference in the degree of coercion between jailing someone for 1 year in a Class A jail vs. repeatedly jailing someone in Class C jails, threatening them of enforced disappearance and threatening their wives and children. This is Shahid...

Can you please point out where: PDM members were arrested up to 5 times even after courts declaring their arrests illegal or providing them bail? Where courts told them that despite it being just that should be released 'they (Establishment) won't let them leave unless he holds a press...

How do these people not realize that this is 1950s shit. An average person these days boils over and questions where the spend is coming from when he / she sees stuff like this.

Don't think this is a change to civil courts. These guys were advised by ISPR to call army act as the relevant law of the land / relevant law under constitution rather than army act.

Not sure why people are losing their nuts over this: In the US and most democratic nations, engaging with elected representatives does not mean you are engaging with their regime. You are trying to gather grassroots support to have them influence their government to change their position. If...

The establishment is flexing it's muscles and even reaching out to the gulf countries to control social media narrative in OSP. Know someone who got called in by CID of a gulf country and got warned not to post stuff about IK / PTI.

Both? Until you can figure out who is who, you don't shoot lethal ammunition. Pretty basic stuff. What do you think these disguised perpetrators were trying to achieve in the first place?

This. Was exactly thinking this.

Unfortunately for you, the sources you trust themselves confirmed it was the military that was recommending not escalating further and henceforth the release. IK and SMQ were then building a narrative to support it. IK said he should appoint DG ISI as PM, but we all know what happened when he...

This is your subjective opinion which doesn't hold much weight. You have to be ultra-dumb to think that IK or SMQ could influence the decision to return a captured soldier which falls squarely in the LEA's domain while bajwa didn't take too kindly to IK forcing his writ on Punjab CM. How would...

As per your PDM government your military chief was shaking visibly with fear and recommended that we let Abhinandan go. On top your military chief has come out on record saying he wanted piece with India, while India was annexing Kashmir.

He was attacked, so that is a valid point. From where you are coming from: - "Please let us register an FIR against people who we believe are out to get us so 'due process can begin'" - NO - "Please follow the court orders and black and white clauses of the constitution which lay out election...

Let the due process begin? Supreme Court orders are there and all the gov and institutions have effectively said we do not care. It is clear to everyone that there is no intention of letting due process take its course. The past has time and again shown that groups who do not become violent...

That is not a valid excuse for delaying elections. It also means that based on their populous support, before political engineering and compromises (read avoiding PTI government) they don't have majority. Having said that, they can present a unified front even in elections, but are afraid that...

Why so afraid of elections then? What is the 'level playing field' that PDM keeps talking about?

You need to spend Rs. 20b to make sure that the remaining Rs. 1392b are spent according to the wishes of the people and the spend is entrusted to those who people trust. People may want to use it for development, for security, for subsidies or whatever, but they need the ability to decide...

None of the people who are implying in this thread that the population of Karachi has actually decreased due to xyz reason has lived in Karachi over the last 15-20 years and witnessed the uncontrolled urban sprawl. I lived in Karachi for 25 years and also spent time in Lahore and ISL-Pindi...

Incorrect. Constitution is supreme, unless amended by a super majority. The proposed bill is trying to skirt the constitution by saying they are amending administrative and procedural acts, but by doing so are infringing over the constitution. It's like saying I am not amending the constitution...

The immigration numbers I don't think include people invited on student visas. The numbers I heard for last year was something like 450k students, with almost 400k Indians. They ultimately become PR holders. One legitimate reason is the way their Federal Express Entry scores work. Multiple...