Narrative confusion

AS the information minister on Tuesday proclaimed that the people of KP had “welcomed” the imposition of governor’s rule and emergency in the province, he seemed to be forgetting that citizens had also distributed sweets and celebrated when the late Gen Pervez Musharraf overthrew Nawaz Sharif’s government almost to the day, 27 years ago. The parallel is not exact: one was a military coup, the other a constitutional provision invoked by an elected government. Yet, the lesson holds. Public approval, however genuine, did not legitimise the removal of an elected government then, and it cannot by…