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SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE MYTH OF PTI’S POPULARITY

For years, political analysts across the board, from pro-Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) commentators to supposedly neutral and anti-PTI observers, insisted that PTI was the most popular political party in the country. This narrative was even widely echoed by Western media outlets. Lately, however, that conviction has eroded. Commentators first began backtracking by limiting their claims about PTI’s dominance to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), but even that has started to falter. What many mistook for w