Climbdowns, cheese and crowdfunding: Imran Khan´s first month as PM
(The Guardian Pakistan)

Pakistan´s former cricket captain is fast learning that holding office in the country brings heavy compromisesOn Monday morning, in the ramshackle suburb of Al-Asif Square in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, local headteacher Syed Mustafa was organising a party. The night before, the newly elected prime minister, Imran Khan had promised on national television to grant citizenship to the Pakistani-born children of the country´s roughly 2.5 million Afghan refugees. Mustafa set out the sweets while one of his colleagues put up a large Pakistani flag.But the celebrations were brief. On Tuesday, after strong push-back by nationalists, the military and his own coalition partners, the prime minister U-turned. `No decision had been made` on citizenship, Khan said in a speech to parliament. Related: Pakistan`s Imran Khan skirts issue of Afghan refugees` citizenship Continue reading...