Tahir Ahmed

The political landscape in Islamabad shifted radically Wednesday, when the opposition granted full access to electronic media to meet with dissident PTI parliamentarians at Sindh House. This was an attempt to show that the legislators had not been kidnapped or paid, as the government claimed, but had come of their own accord because they feared unfriendly action from the ruling party in the run-up to the National Assembly's no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan.