Normally, painful reforms demand a national consensus, which deeply polarized Pakistan is unlikely to achieve. Failing that, it would help if the leadership were trusted. Sharif and his cabinet of rivals are equally unlikely to receive such affirmation. The best they can expect from the Pakistani street is tolerance.

Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over a corruption case, in the latest of a series of charges laid against him. The case has been described by Pakistani authorities as the largest the country has seen - though the country has seen huge financial scandals in the past,

A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has sentenced the country’s already-imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and seven years in jail after finding them guilty of corruption.