The ground reality facing PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif may be differently constructed, but in effect he has also been blocked from taking key decisions, even when his party is a major coalition partner in government.

Corruption seems to happen everywhere, but the best safeguard against it is a truly free media and an upright criminal justice system.

If this fight for political ascendancy continues in the no-holds-barred fashion we see today, rest assured the people’s deprivations will continue to mount and so will their rage.