Pakistan’s democracy reels from Nawaz Sharif’s removal | Pakistan

Islamabad, Pakistan – On the balmy evening of May 12, 2013, when Nawaz Sharif strode out triumphantly onto the balcony of his Lahore home to address an adoring crowd, he must have thought that this time, surely, he was going to make it to the finish line. He had just won Pakistan’s general election by a landslide, securing a two-thirds majority in parliament and was on the way to ensuring the