Pakistan, April 19 -- "These are the two countries, Saudi Arabia and the United States, with whose cooperation the regime change operation took place."

"Saudi Arabia played the role of a conduit."

"Saudi Arabian government "serves their (the US) purposes in the region on their directions."

Imagine the impact of such half-baked ideas when said out loud on national television, not by a typical scandal peddler but from the mouth of an official card-carrying, limelight-enjoying leader of a mainstream political party.

That PTI was quick to very publicly disapprove of Sher Afzal Marwat and emphasise in clear terms that such comments did not reflect the party's strategy or standpoint comes as a pleasant surprise. For far too long, the ruling...