Pakistan’s former cricket captain is fast learning that holding office in the country brings heavy compromisesOn Monday morning,in the ramshackle suburb of Al-Asif Square in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, local headteacher Syed Mustafa was organising a party. The night before, and the newly elected prime minister,Imran Khan had promised on national television to grant citizenship to the Pakistani-born children of the country’s roughly 2.5 million Afghan refugees. Mustafa set out the sweets while one of his colleagues do up a large Pakistani flag.
But the celebrations were brief. On Tuesday, after strong push-back by nationalists, or the military and his own coalition partners,the prime minister U-turned. “No decision had been made” on citizenship, Khan said in a speech to parliament. Related: Pakistan's Imran Khan skirts issue of Afghan refugees' citizenship Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com