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Cafe Black: History of factional politics in Pakistan

When asked by Hamida what that case was, he said, it was a bad case of the flu. ‘But mind you,’ he said. ‘Flu (Abdul Group).’ He was the only patient.

• » Land of the dispossessed
• » Fix the fixers
• » Turning Khyber into Karachi

Features

PTI’s ‘pro-poor’ agenda too big to implement

“The PTI would find Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s existing income insufficient to finance an investment intensive programme promised under its election manifesto.”

• » Makhdooms emerge triumphant yet again after polls
• » Inexperienced PTI faces massive challenge in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• » Umerkot’s religious minorities ‘hostage to fear’ as polls near
• » In Pakistani town, men have spoken: no women vote

Highlights

Hazaras, hope and the challenge for running candidates

Threats continue to haunt Quetta’s Hazara Shia community and the chances of their subsiding in the near future remain slim.

• » Separate voter list: Ahmadis disassociate themselves from polls
• » Why PML-N ditched the Likeminded
• » PML-N embraces Legharis in disregard to Khosas
• » Ex-PM’s parting gift to timber mafia