‘Pakistan in the clutches of dynastic politics’

HYDERABAD: In Pakistan’s stratified, semi-feudal society, patronage and kinship play a huge role in politics, often dominating ideology. According to some estimates, more than half of the seats of national and provincial assemblies have been ‘forwarded’ from father to son, brother to brother, thus keeping the ‘business’ of politics within family. Analysing Sharif’s family, the […]