Posted 3/13/2024, 3:17:18 AM
Pakistan's New Cabinet Shows Old Rivalries and Faces - What Prospects for Managing Crises?
- The new power-sharing arrangement between old rivals Zardari and Shehbaz shows the bizarreness of Pakistani politics.
- The new cabinet comprises mostly familiar old faces, raising doubts about prospects for change.
- Appointing a banker rather than Ishaq Dar as finance minister signals the PM's independence from his brother Nawaz.
- Managing the economic crisis will be extremely difficult given its enormity and the government's fragility.
- The appointment of political outsider Mohsin Naqvi as interior minister hints at the establishment's growing influence on key appointments.