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Imran time is here. But is change really on the way?
If change is a comin’ or change is to remain another country, there are at least some clues of where to look for early signs of the change agenda.
Hard-nosed reality ahead for PM Khan
A lie at the heart of Imran’s ascension to power and the smiting down of his predecessor has been that there is a crisis.
Imran will get the numbers that he needs in Parliament
Between the incoming government and the Opposition silliness, you’d quite obviously prefer to be Imran just now.
Options for Imran’s PTI very limited
All these likely served as signals that the PML(N) would be eased out and that the PTI was now the laadla, or favoured party.
Whoever has more tricks, seats will win in Pak
Zardari may emerge as PM-maker as no stable coalition is likely sans the PPP. This would superficially validate the ‘Ek Zardari sub pe bhari’ slogan.
Time to avoid chaos, salvage stability
For all his disruptiveness, Imran has not yet proved to be the great destroyer he is feared to be.
Many doubt if elections will be held at all
Now, Nawaz is going to wait it out for the March 2018 Senate elections he has been eyeing all along.
Nawaz may not know how to get what he really wants
It was always a low-probability event — Nawaz wasn’t suddenly about to become more than the sum of his politics.
Revenge of the State: People may have to pay
In rough terms, poor economic choices and bad policies between 2004 and 2013 drove the country into deep macroeconomic destabilisation.