What level playing field? on August 19, 2018PML-N supporters protested in the National Assembly after the election of the Speaker on the 15th of this month. The protest was a continuation of the opposition’s accusations of pre-poll rigging by the “agencies’’ ostensibly to ensure Imran Khan’s electoral victory. The assumption is that the opposition has been denied a level playing field in […]
Dismissing Pakhtun grievances on April 27, 2018Speaking at an investiture ceremony in Rawalpindi on April 12, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, in an obvious reference to the Pakhtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), warned that ‘engineered protests’ will not be allowed to reverse the gains of counter-terrorism operations. The army chief may have had his reasons for labelling the PTM protests as ‘engineered’ and […]