Khan has never expressed dismay at the army’s business, commercial, and real-estate interests nor opposed appointments of retired army officers to top administrative positions. He and the army are, to quote him, 'on the same page'. His differences remain personal.

Notwithstanding Imran Khan’s hypocrisy and contradictions, persecuting PTI is a bad idea. So is military rule, for which Pakistan has paid through its nose.

Europe was ruined by war, but Pakistan fell on its knees because of its own doing.

Pakistan never had a Nehru. A further setback happened in the Zia ul Haq days when Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's modernism had its remaining flesh eaten off by Allama Iqbal's shaheen.

In their frenzied attempt to portray Mani Shankar Aiyar's 'treachery' at Forman Christian College in Pakistan, Indian TV channels conveniently overlooked valid and salient points in his speech.