The writer says Pakistanis know they must be extremely cautious when talking about religious matters or certain state institutions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ISLAMABAD - What goes around comes around, they say. So when the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad was cobbled together, first to deny Benazir Bhutto's government a clear majority back in the 1988 election and then topple her government altogether in 1990, it was Nawaz Sharif who profited politically.
Whether or not the neutrals have permanently pulled the plug on their support for him also remains to be seen, however, for now he is 'khatarnaak' enough to be banished from television screens and charged with terrorism. Certainly, for those who believe that the way forward for Pakistan is a robust democracy, this is an overkill.
Donald Lu's rebukes and the emissary's demarche are long forgotten. Instead, PTI supporters on Twitter are wondering why the US isn't standing up for Shehbaz Gill's rights as a citizen. After all, he does have close ties to the US, they argue. When Shamima Begum, a British-born woman, left the UK to join the Islamic State in Syria, the British government revoked her citizenship, even though she was only 15 when she had left and made several statements saying she had been misled and feared execution in Syria.
Mr Khan not surprisingly is much better known in the West than Ali Wazir but his regime change accusations against the US and sympathy for terrorists like Osama bin Laden haven't won him too many friends there.
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