For the third time that a Nawaz Sharif government has been sent packing and he has also been awarded a jail term
KARACHI: It is for the third time that a Nawaz Sharif government has been sent packing and this time he has also been awarded a jail term. First, he was removed in a military coup and now through a judicial verdict. Sharif is once again to mull over the options available to him, one of which is to seek a political deal and then an asylum, the way it happened in 1999.
A 10-year jail term is equivalent to the tenure of two governments here. If history is to repeat itself, Sharif will return once again the way he returned previously. Few predict the PML-N bringing Shehbaz Sharif to the forefront ahead of the elections and gaining sympathy vote. Options to save the party from extinction are still very much available.
Yousaf Iqbal
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2018.
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