Former planning minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that a challenge for “older parties is to align their politics with the new emerging socio-economic dynamics”.

In a post on X, Iqbal emphasised that older political parties needed to “create space for these segments in their party structures”.

The PML-N leader highlighted that ex-premier Imran Khan’s politics was based on “middle and educated classes and youth rebellion against traditional politics”, where there was “no meaningful space for them”.

“Worldwide electoral politics has become vulnerable to manipulation with [a] lethal combination of data science and technology for shaping narratives and micro-targeting the voters. Older parties have to up their response,” he added.