The newly elected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf finds itself confronted with a host of complex challenges that ranges from maintaining a tenuous coalition, an uncertain global scenario and crippling debt

The choice could hardly have been poorer with its only sad consolation, if any is to be found, lying perhaps in the promised brilliance of the political theatre that is unfolding as scions of two of the country’s largest political houses, the Bhuttos and the Sharifs, lead their respective parties into the next general election, a battle that will pitch them against each other