The writer is president of the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency.
THE recent campaigning for the Legislative Assembly election in Azad Jammu & Kashmir has taken political confrontation to a new low. All three mainstream political parties, the PTI, PML-N and PPP, have accused each other of selling out Kashmir, of being friends with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, of compromising on vital national interests.
One PTI federal minister, while addressing public meetings, called former prime minister and PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto a traitor, leading to a rumpus in the Senate and National Assembly. Prime Minister Imran Khan, taking part in the election campaign, injected yet another uncalled-for dimension into the discourse by implying that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s grandson played the expensive sport of polo in England using the ill-gotten wealth of his grandfather. The prime minister could have stopped at criticising Nawaz Sharif who is
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ISLAMABAD: In the latest turn of events in the war of words between Prime Minister Imran Khan and PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, which drew in the premier s ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith at one juncture, Maryam said to Jemima you have only your ex to blame .
The chain of events began with Prime Minister Imran Khan criticising how the poor are jailed in Pakistan and the powerful get an NRO and go abroad and watch their grandson play polo , during an address to an election campaign rally in Bhimber, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Geo News reported.
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