PTI strategy — or the lack of it

AS if on cue, a day after PTI chairman Gohar Khan made public the decision of the party and its founder to initiate a dialogue with political parties currently on the treasury benches in parliament, party leaders Omar Ayub and Raoof Hasan have announced a reversal of the move.

With a budget viewed by many commentators as hitting the urban salaried class in the private sector the hardest given the rise in taxes, one would have expected more coherence from PTI decision-makers to capitalise...