The formal appointment of Mehmood Khan Achakzai as leader of the opposition, after a hiatus owing to power politics, should serve as a first thaw. Incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan had proposed his name after Omar Ayub had been unseated by the election commission on a contentious judicial ruling in the May 9 riots case.

Since then, the opposition had lingered peerlessly in the National Assembly, and was more in an agitational mode than acting as an assertive shadow entity on the floor of the house. As........

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