Meet Cyril Almeida, the man who 'triggered' Nawaz Sharif's exit

In the past, Almeida has been severely critical of the army, not so much the civilian govt

The dismissal of Nawaz Sharif as Pakistan Prime Minister by the country’s Supreme Court for his featuring in the Panama Papers may not be as straightforward as it seems. According to news reports in Pakistan, Sharif’s dismissal goes much beyond the banal occurrence of a corrupt politician having to relinquish a position of power after a protracted public outcry. As is the case with most things that make headlines in Pakistan, the army had a telling role to play here, too. 

On October 6 last year, Dawn, the country’s most-read English daily, published a news report on how Sharif, in a