[NATION.PK] THE image of a mustachioed man with peaked cap and a chest full of medals is becoming hard to avoid in Pakistain. It is splashed across the posters of a politician competing in a by-election in the eastern city of Lahore. It looms large on giant billboards in the port city of Bloody Karachi...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, apparently paid for by adoring citizens. And it is a rare day when Pakistain's chief of army staff is not pictured on a newspaper front page. He has even entered the colourful repertoire of artists who decorate the nation's trucks and rickshaws.
The apotheosis of General Raheel Sharif