It is all happening in Pakistan – unprecedented floods, an economy on the brink, enduring political turbulence, an Army trying hard to maintain its clout while locked in combat with a political leader it once nurtured and nursed to power, former Prime Minister-turned street-fighter Imran Khan.
A Pakistani editor once told this writer: “Can you tell me which other country has provided so much front-page news to the world?” And, after a pause, he said, “There is no other country.” Years later, the statement resonates.