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December 26, 2020

For political advantage: PM relies on ‘muk-mukka’ CoD but reference to charter not misconstrued

ISLAMABAD: For his political advantage, Prime Minister Imran Khan has now cited the 12-year-old Charter of Democracy , signed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan People’s Party . In the past, the prime minister has always contemptuously dismissed the CoD as a secret deal by the two parties to protect each other’s alleged corruption that amounted to little more than ‘you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’.However, the reference to the CoD is not entirely misplaced. The...