Sohail Afridi has been sent in to bat as Ali Amin Gandapur stands retired hurt. This change of guard in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is likely to have wide-ranging political ramifications. At the outset, the decision has reinvigorated a new spirit in a lame-duck PTI, which stands divisive to the core. At the same time, party leader Imran Khan has, by asserting himself, proved beyond doubt his indispensability to the party.

The choice of Afridi is not a surprise as he is considered a party loyalist and a Khan........

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