View From The Neighbourhood: Imran’s U-turns

A weekly look at the public conversations shaping ideas beyond borders — in the Subcontinent.

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In his column in Dawn on April 20, Irfan Hussain compares Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan rather unfavourably with Jacinda Arden, his New Zealand counterpart. The thrust of Hussain’s argument is this: Khan has gone back on nearly all his campaign promises, and worse, “there appears to be little compassion in our prime minister’s heart for the plight of the Hazaras who are regularly targeted by Sunni extremists”.