Pakistan: Sharif Unlikely to Right the Sinking Ship
... the May 11 elections was not enough to give him a free hand to implement his favored policies. While battling for power in that arena, he’ll also have to deal with the country’s national security establishment. Right-wing business tycoon Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) swept the May 11 elections, decimating the incumbent Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and leaving Imran Khan’s upstart Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) in the dust. But the PMLN really only won one of Pakistan’s ...
23.07.2013