PML(N) Quits from Cabinet (and, maybe, from coalition?)

Posted on May 12, 2008
Filed Under >> Adil Najam, Politics
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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.

Asif Zardari Yousuf Gillani Nawaz Sharif

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.

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  1. Rafay Kashmiri says:
    May 31st, 2008 3:31 pm

    @Ilyas Khan Baloch,

    Ap bhi jantay hein aur ham sab ye jantay hein keh
    Zarbhutt, CJ ko ” Kabhi bhi wapas nehein ” laey ga,
    jabkay uska apna C judge already betha howa hay,
    Dogar kiska admi hay, Sain ?

  2. May 31st, 2008 3:18 pm

    I appreciate your feeling for Pakistan and Pakistani but unfortunately you too, expecting to control sole centralize power in your hand so that you can solve the public grievances as you too did in the past.. ? like other politician did in last 60 years. However you want to show the people that you are the only sympathizer for them but are you prepared to share power with common people..? Or you don’t want to trust the people as almost every one politician did in Pakistan .As most politicians pretending to be loyal to the people and talking about the public interest at large but nobody want the people to share the power .If you dare to decentralize the sole power to empower the masses at grass route level ,so that common Pakistani could be involved in decision making process and decide the fate of their own future. Without depending on corrupt feudal politician. Mr.Nawaz Sharif you are the only one who can dare to raise the voice for the voiceless to empower the common Pakistani and decentralize the sole power at the centre normally misused by the one person or few of them ,exploiting the national resources for making millions and billions leaving the Pakistani behind with hope for better to come?
    You are investing your all strengths only to remove or impeachment of Mr.Musharaf and reinstatement of chief justice fine but will that be enough to settle public grievances of Pakistani and Pakistan .How will you solve the socio-economic and political anomaly without change of socio-political system in Pakistan
    Al-Might Allah, has given you a strength and power to do right things in a patriotic way ,why don’t you do that ,If you to ,not committed to protect external interest and want the public representative and institution should be transparent and answerable to the masses. Please let the people of Pakistan to share the power and decide their own destiny. Hope you will think for decentralization of power at grass route level .

    Kindly see..www.idp.org.pk
    Ilyas khan Baloch
    Organizer Islamic Democratic Party.

  3. Rafay Kashmiri says:
    May 16th, 2008 3:56 pm

    Adil Najam,
    Shair, tawajuh-talab hay !!

    @Salman Taseer’s appointement thru conspiracy,
    is nothing but a sample of PPP’s Siyyasi Kam’aegi,
    ( a decent Urdu word for Kaminigi)
    this is, as if All Pakistan Musharrafian Employees
    Association ( APMEA) has applied for jobs to
    Zarbhutts, of PPP,

    On the list, looking for a job

    1 Salman Taseer ( got it)
    2 Sherafgan
    3 Tariq Azeem
    4 Durrani

    Do you know that on every marriage on GEO shadi on line
    10 % commission is paid to………. ?

    arz hay

    PP ki Siyyasat mein, hiffazat hoti nehein patloonon ki,
    Bhiggti hay, ya uttarti hay, ya bhigg kay uttar jati hay
    Rafay Kashmiri

  4. Umar Akbar says:
    May 16th, 2008 9:34 am

    It is a nightmare scenario, as spearheads of the three most corrupt and incompetent governments in recent history, are gearing up to rule the country together. Deals have been struck, the die is cast, and the smokescreens are up to cover the ‘topi drama’ that would put the World Wrestling Federation’s top wrestler-actors to shame.

  5. SMM says:
    May 15th, 2008 5:29 pm

    The winner in all of this is Musharraf and his American masters. Remember who was negotiating for Zardari-Hussain Haqqani who is an American agent.

    I am very disappointed in Zardari. Like many I had thought that he was now a changed man. But maybe he is now Musharaf’s new Shaukst Aziz.

    Sad.

  6. Daktar says:
    May 15th, 2008 5:21 pm

    This news sounds ominous. Maybe this breakup is deeper than we think.

    From THE NEWS:

    Pakistan Muslim League-N Thursday decided to boycott the oath taking ceremony of the appointed Governor Punjab Salman Taseer.

    Earlier, PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said no consultations were made with Pakistan Muslim League-N leaders for the appointment of the new governor in Punjab.

    He termed appointment of Salman Taseer as Governor Punjab part of a conspiracy.

    He also said that the appointed Governor Salman Taseer is a highly controversial person and is not suitable for the position.

    Pakistan Peoples Party on the other hand denied reports that the PML-N leaders were not consulted for the appointment of the new governor.

    Khawaja Asif in reaction to the statement of PPP said: “There is a difference between consulting and informing.”

  7. Rafay Kashmiri says:
    May 15th, 2008 4:14 pm

    @ Ilyas Khan Baluch,

    Bhai jan,
    articles par, zara hath halka rakhein,!
    warna khadsha hay, keh ap, apna pooray ka pura
    Statut Chaapnay kay chakkar mein hein,
    Aik baat to Bata’ieey ? zarah apka imtihaan loon !!

    Hamaray Baba, Greatest Quaid nay Pakistan kis kay liay
    manga thaa ? aur kiun ? Kaun kis say alehdah hoa ?

    Jawab chaar lafzon mein dijiay, to inayat hogi.
    Sirf chaar !!!
    Khaksar
    Rafay Kashmiri

  8. Imran says:
    May 14th, 2008 6:53 am

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