Sharif’s Return to Likely Rekindle China Influence in Pakistan

Desperation over economic disaster results in disgraced premier’s reappearance

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

With the glamorous return last month of the thrice-elected former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N), after almost four years of exile in London that began with a flight from corruption charges, Pakistan seems set to make a fundamental turn towards China and downsize, if not comple…