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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicShehbaz Sharif

Topic: Shehbaz Sharif

Shehbaz Sharif’s biggest challenge will be to undo Imran Khan’s bombast politics in Pakistan

Sharif brings experience in governance to the job, which has helped lift the Pakistan rupee and the stock market. But things aren't that easy in the country.

Why Imran Khan blamed the US for his downfall and not Pakistan army

The military establishment’s interventions have become a constitutive as well as a regulative feature in the management of political actors of Pakistan.

Bajwa set to go in November, so who will be next Pakistan Army chief? These are 4 contenders

Head of Pakistan military's PR wing has ruled out Gen. Bajwa seeking extension & speculation is rife about possible successor. Top 4 contenders all Lt Generals promoted in 2019.

Our take on bulldozer in MP, Shehbaz Sharif, Ram Navami violence — in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Watches, iPhone, table mats — Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif says Imran Khan kept & sold state gifts

Shehbaz Sharif said Khan retained and sold valuable gifts that he received from foreign dignitaries worth PKR 140 million in Dubai when he was PM.

This PM worries about ‘aloo, tamatar’ prices — Shehbaz Sharif’s ‘Purana Pakistan’ is promising

When Shehbaz Sharif took office, Pakistanis couldn’t believe that a PM could give an entire speech without talking about himself. Pinch us, will you?

New PM Shehbaz Sharif wants ‘Pakistan speed’ in govt offices, Pakistanis say ‘RIP bureaucrats’

Shehbaz Sharif has said government offices will be open six days a week. Not all Pakistanis are happy with the ‘workaholic’ PM.

Expect small steps, not a breakthrough in India-Pakistan ties despite Shehbaz-Modi messages

Sharif’s insistence on Kashmir talks and Modi’s on ‘terror-free’ region show core concerns haven’t changed. However, both sides could try and push for normalising diplomatic ties.

PM Shehbaz Sharif has dispelled hope of reset in India-Pakistan ties, won’t risk being soft

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Pakistani media praises ‘workaholic’ PM Shehbaz Sharif, others say ‘beggars can’t be choosers’

Pakistani newspapers have pointed out how Shehbaz Sharif has always been the ‘good cop’ to Nawaz Sharif’s ‘bad cop’ when it comes to dealing with the army.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.