Published on, Oct. 1 -- October 1, 2025 1:14 AM

Round and round it goes; where it stops, nobody knows. Except this isn't a circus act. It is the federation itself being whittled away by ego and a refusal to look at the bigger picture. Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has energy, ambition, and the platform to redefine her party's politics.

Perhaps it was in the heat of the moment that she chose to reach for the oldest (and most divisive) card in the Pakistani deck to defend her province. Telling the PPP to "keep your advice to yourself" while asserting that "if Punjab wants to build canals for its water, why are you bothered?

It is Punjab's water," might play well to a local gallery, but the PPP's walkout that followed in parliament w...