Beginning from the top, Mr Khattak, the lean, tall bespectacled veteran of past governments, seems a stand-alone man. Perception, and there is a good measure of it, is that he is irrelevant, or has been made irrelevant.
Decisions, it is said, are made in Zaman Park, Lahore, and not in Peshawar. This, officials say, is adding up to the backlog and stymieing the whole reform process.