Analysis | Can Pakistan pick up the pieces?

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A divided Supreme Court and a political class split down the middle are only toppings for a country that appears to be in a permanently failing state as ordinary Pakistanis deal with runaway inflation, a depreciating rupee, and growth plummeting to 0.4%...

The inability of the Election Commission of Pakistan, the countrys Supreme Court and the executive government to agree on a date to hold elections in the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa are a sign that all institutions are in a race to the bottom...

Punjab, if the writ of a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court runs, will go to the polls on May 14 but Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his government are loathing to release funds for the elections and provide security in an embattled country...

Gen. Bajwa and his ilk turned again to the Pakistan Muslim League (N) of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to stave off the challenge from Mr. Imran Khan, whose diehard supports think nothing of turning up in massive numbers to display their street power...

The PML (N), which is in coalition with the Pakistani Peoples Party (PPP), appears unable to match Mr. Khans lung and street power in the absence of Mr. Nawaz Sharif, who is still in political exile in London...

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