Listen

/

1.0x

There are political prisoners whom regimes fear because they are alive. There are martyrs whom regimes fear because they are dead. Imran Khan has become something far more dangerous to Pakistan’s ruling order: a man whose existence humiliates it, and whose death could indict it.

That is the trap now tightening around Field Marshal Asim Munir and the two dynastic houses that shelter beneath the military canopy — the Sharifs and the Bhutto-Zardaris.