Given all the tensions of recent weeks, it is perhaps no surprise that Pakistan's rumour mill is filled with talk of yet another military coup. This time, however, the multiple crises may be too much for even the army to chew.
What began in the same way as so many rumours in Pakistan do – with numerous curt, anonymous emails, text messages and iftar dinner conversations – snowballed into something of a storm. It may have been just a bit of extra masala for the evening news, but it appeared that Pakistan was heading for yet another military takeover.
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