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Time for Pakistan’s generals to stop meddling in politics: The Economist

it follows the same tone as other articles in other publishing outlets. Is anyone seriously buying it? I doubt it because when you scratch the surface barely you find things like these.

You know why Nawaz came Back to Pakistan? UK has passed a new anti corruption law and If Nawaz cannot give money record his property will be seized. This new Law is what brought Nawaz Back.
 
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "Foul play". Since there is no author, one can assume it's editorial

Why we as Pakistani used to live in delusion that whole world revolve around us. We made ourselves laughing stock around the world. and Thanks to Lumber one
 
You know why Nawaz came Back to Pakistan? UK has passed a new anti corruption law and If Nawaz cannot give money record his property will be seized. This new Law is what brought Nawaz Back.

Then there is transparency international on their case too. Problem is his haram earnings has enticed so many people from so many sectors like a cannibal has appetite for human flesh. These people need to be identified and brought to justice. This swine has ransacked a nation and his appetite has no end.
 
You know why Nawaz came Back to Pakistan? UK has passed a new anti corruption law and If Nawaz cannot give money record his property will be seized. This new Law is what brought Nawaz Back.
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Then there is transparency international on their case too. Problem is his haram earnings has enticed so many people from so many sectors like a cannibal has appetite for human flesh. These people need to be identified and brought to justice. This swine has ransacked a nation and his appetite has no end.

There is an OGP Global Summit 2018: Tbilisi going on currently

https://voices.transparency.org/its...orruption-commitments-in-the-ogp-a14489b02dc6

https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_londongrad_and_uk_foreign_policy_fight_against_corruption

https://www.opengovpartnership.org/events/ogp-global-summit-2018-tbilisi

If Pakistani Govt convicts Nawaz and Maryam they cannot keep those flats. The New Law has been made in UK. I received a message from a friend I cannot find it now but will post it when I find it will all details. Nawaz came back to save his Money not to fight for democracy.
 
There is an OGP Global Summit 2018: Tbilisi going on currently

https://voices.transparency.org/its...orruption-commitments-in-the-ogp-a14489b02dc6

https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_londongrad_and_uk_foreign_policy_fight_against_corruption

https://www.opengovpartnership.org/events/ogp-global-summit-2018-tbilisi

If Pakistani Govt convicts Nawaz and Maryam they cannot keep those flats. The New Law has been made in UK. I received a message from a friend I cannot find it now but will post it when I find it will all details. Nawaz came back to save his Money not to fight for democracy.

But he and daughter are convicted!

MODIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII:agree:

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moohdhi ji's love affair with the mian. I wonder if moohdhi eats aloo ghosht :laugh:
 
But he and daughter are convicted!

Yes they are convicted but they can walk free if they provide a valid money trail. Which they cannot because they don't have it. They came back to get back in govt and pass few laws and escape this whole mess this is their only survival and this will buy them time that is why they are paying to Bot houses and Media News pressure groups to post News like the OP article.
 
Time for Pakistan’s generals to stop meddling in politics
Imran Khan’s likely victory in this month’s election fits a long pattern of political match-fixing

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Print edition | Leaders
Jul 19th 2018

AS A fast bowler, Imran Khan made rival batsmen quake and led Pakistan to victory in the Cricket World Cup in 1992. As a politician, he is thundering towards the election on July 25th and appears to be on the point of scoring another famous victory. Polls suggest his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), may emerge as the largest; and Mr Khan may well become the country’s next prime minister.

Yet, as a pukka sportsman, can Mr Khan really be happy? Although he and Pakistan’s army deny foul play, the match has been rigged. The army is ensuring that the PTI enjoys privileged access to media, endorsements from powerful people and defections from rival parties. Nawaz Sharif, a three-term former prime minister, and his daughter, Maryam, were arrested as they stepped off a plane from London on July 13th. A campaign of harassment and arrest has affected other parties’ workers far more than the PTI’s. More murkily, the others have also suffered assassination attempts and terrorist attacks, among them a suicide-bomb that killed 149 people at a rally for a local party in Mastung, in Balochistan, on July 13th.

The generals have long pulled the strings of Pakistani politics. But rarely, short of taking power themselves, have they meddled so brazenly. Pakistan’s miserable failure to develop a stable democracy compares ever more starkly with the rude progress of its arch-rival, India.

The khaki umpire

Whether in the 1970s in the era of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, or in the 1990s during Mr Sharif’s earlier terms, the army’s “jeep-wallahs” first endorsed and promoted pliant civilian leaders, then squeezed them when they grew too independent, and in the end got rid of them.

Mr Sharif lent his name to his party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which held a majority in the outgoing assembly. He was forced from office last year after judges upheld a petty charge of failure to disclose a company directorship, then banned him from politics for life in April; he was later given ten years in prison on more serious charges of hiding assets abroad. By returning to Pakistan to face jail, Mr Sharif has turned himself from a grubby politician into something of a martyr. Nobody quite knows why the army turned against him. Most probably it thought him uppity—making overtures to India, for instance or for his quiet questioning of the deep state’s attachment to unsavoury Islamists.

Mr Khan, for his part, started off posing as an anti-establishment politician, railing against the corrupt duopoly of PML-N and its rival, the Pakistan Peoples Party, founded by Bhutto and later led by his daughter, Benazir, who was assassinated in 2007. Mr Khan shows little interest in foreign affairs beyond ranting against America. He chirrups hardline views on such issues as punishing blasphemy with death. Perhaps, some think, he will even form a coalition with ultra-extremists.

However, one thing that sets this election apart from previous ones is the greater outcry over the army’s match-fixing. Prominent journalists and some of the country’s largest media groups say they have been threatened and coerced into promoting the PTI and muting coverage of its rivals. At a press conference on July 16th Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission, an NGO, declared that there were ample grounds to question the legitimacy of the elections, warning of “blatant, aggressive and unabashed attempts to manipulate the outcome”.

Pakistani voters may yet rebuke the generals. But outsiders can do little to restrain the army, now that Pakistan is moving further into China’s orbit. Mr Khan, who is profiting from army support today, should be aware that he will pay for it tomorrow when the generals come calling.

As for the jeep-wallahs, they must see that they are harming the country they claim to defend. In the 70 years since partition, Pakistan has been torn by war, terrorism, coups, instability and religious extremism. It has lagged ever further behind India economically and on other fronts—including cricket.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2...kistans-generals-to-stop-meddling-in-politics
Seriously? How much more propaganda can these rags churn out.
The comparison to india at the end was a dead giveaway. :disagree:
 
The "Fauji Sazish" narrative needs to be called out for what is truly is. A conspiracy theory.

PTI's rise to fame is a purely natural response. This is what happens when democracy is allowed to mature without military coups ruining everything.

Yes call out the military when there is something to call out. But if a grassroots ccivilian movenent is forming which rejects the old parties, why do people think it's a conspiracy?

Any evidence? Nope.

The west is desperate to keep Imran Khan out. Him in power will cause them headaches. He's fully on board with wanting less reliance and helping less with the west.

Why do you think those kanjars are crying? Democracy...gotta love it.
 

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