Rajeev Deshpande
Jailed Imran Khan’s shadow looms over the new Pakistan prime minister
The power balance in Pakistan is poised on a fragile axis. Sharif, Zardari and Khan constitute a lopsided triangle. All three are high-stakes gamblers in the no-limits political casino. The croupier-owner is the army. All three know that this is their last throw of dice
Economic recovery will be slow amidst political instability no matter who wins the election
In the first decade of independence, Pakistan’s top leadership solicited the assistance of the US and joined anti-Soviet security alliances
The Pakistani armed forces will not want a coup as it will then be directly responsible for all the wrongdoing, notes the American military scholar
Pervez Hoodbhoy on the political crisis in his country following Imran Khan’s arrest