Critics say opposition leader's appointment may be timed to pre-empt PTI's Feb 8 show
After months of drift, when the National Assembly last Friday finally reclaimed a formal opposition voice with the notification of Mahmood Khan Achakzai as Leader of the Opposition, the move ended a stalemate that had paralysed the lower house for over five months.
However, the development also immediately reframed the political conversation: was this merely procedural closure, or the first signal of a broader recalibration aimed at pulling opposition politics back from the streets and into Parliament?
Achakzai's appointment — made on the nomination of incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan — raised an unavoidable question about timing and intent.
What, critics asked, finally prompted National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq t
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