Adil Najam
Not unexpectedly, the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz Group has decided to quit from all cabinet positions in the coalition government it had so recently formed with Asif Zardari’s PPP.
According to The News:
Following the failure of London talks on the reinstatement of judges; Pakistan Muslim League (PML)-N has decided to resign from federal cabinet in central executive committee meeting underway here. Earlier, federal ministers reached to attend the meeting without official car and other privileges. The meeting has discussed that coalition with Peoples Party was made for the restoration of deposed judges but Peoples Party has failed to fulfill its commitment therefore PML-N has decided to quit the coalition.
The report here says that they have “quit the coalition” but other rumblings suggest that they have only left the cabinet and will continue to work with the PPP on the ouster of Gen. Musharraf. That, however, remains to be seen.
Our ongoing Poll on this subject (now closed) had suggested that most people did NOT believe that the coalition woud fall just yet over the judges issue. But at least for now the news is that it has.
However, this being Pakistan everything will be spun every which way and by the time the dust settles - if it ever settles - things will nearly certainly look very different from what they do now.
For a change, a politician with power stood steadfast by his commitment eventhough that meant losing power (apparently).
Hats off to Nawaz Sharif.
This is sad - in politics one needs to show political maturity when joining hands with others - hinging coalition on just one point aganeda was bound to be a faliure. While the country is plagued with many other urgent issues, which required everyone to sit together and to redress the grievances of comman man, quitting for very personal gains was sad.
Let the wisdom prevail rather than emotions
NAWAZ SHARIF and SHABAZ SHARIF should now find a big rock and crawl under it!
Independence of Judiciary? YES!
Reinstatement of a retired judge (whose reinstatement sole beneficiary would be the Sharif brothers) became a false prophet just because of his timing! ABSOLUTELY NO!
Politics is a heartless, spineless and soulless profession where the ONLY objective is survival! Zardari is good at it! Nawaz and Shabaz SUCK at it because their level of politics has not even caused a dent in the Presidency! They bark day in and day out at the President and yet and rightly so the Presidency does not even respond (bhonkanay valay kuttay sif bhonktay hain!)
MUSHARRAF (who is a far better politician and a thinking man then all of these elected goof’s combined) is going to stay whether the likes of the Kala Kot Vala’s and the Nawaz Sharif likes it or not! Zardari will simply take over where the Chaudary’s left!
Soon the reality will dawn and things will go on as per master plan without the vengeful Sharif’s having any part to play in it either now or in the future!
Ali, I share your concern about secrecy in Pakistan politics. They have these closed-door meetings in locations like Murree, Dubai, and London in order to strike a “deal.” We don’t even know what the propoposal was and why it didnt’ work out, and who had issues with it. This makes so much easier for thugs like Zardari to get away with these things.
@ Somebody mentioned “Awam “,
I thought it was awam who was suffering from
Invisible ATTA,
Load-shedded electricity
Food scarcitum,
Prices beyond reach
Medical Mafia
Foreign aid disappeared
Dargha’s generous Langhars
Politician’s ” allalay Tallalays ”
Media perversion and projection of Fahashi,
How about cats, dogs, camels, horses, etc atleast saved from
PCOs, What is left for awam is
jootay, dundday, chiters, lathis, tear gas, and mujras &
Discos invited from India, to keep them quiet & cool.
” Yeh sab partition ka qasur hay ”
wah rey, secular/marxist ki Tamashbini awami Kothon par.
Khanay ko awam keliay sirf chutki Bhar GEO MAZZAY SAY.
Ya, Aalim on line kay Maulevis, Murgh mussalm Khanay walay Goya Phalsapha Khakar attay hein.
Bechari Awaam. Dil chahta hay keh 3 Qatay likh maron,
Lekin mood nehein horaha hay. Ham sadmay mein hein.
Abhi kuch der mein hazar hota hon, Ma’azrat
this is all drama - dekhava, so to speak. the secrecy in pakistani politics is borderline sickening.
pml-n isnt going anywhere. the resignation letters will not be accepted - and zardari will somehow magically manage to convince the nawaz league to stay on.
I think this was not a bad thing. I also think that they will actually continue to operate on other things maybe even against Musharraf. Having both major parties together was unnatural and could not last.
Why is anyone surprised? The real tragedy of Pakistan is that two good men Musharraf and CJP Iftikhar came/were brought into a conflict that cleared the path for looters of our, not too distant, past to come to power again.
Restoration of a CJ who retires in 2013 and will be unbelievably strong and independant of political powers is not favored by anyone. Be it Nawaz or Zardari. This guy went toe to toe with a uniformed dictator. These politicians are just cockroaches infront of him. Re-instating him will put an end to their shenanigans. They will soon rid us of Musharraf also. Then the Pakistani people will really get to lie in the bed they made by electing the same crooks. 100 rupee dollar anyone!