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.
@ 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!
I feel Nawaz Sharif was left with no option owing to Mr 10% lust for retaining Musharraf at the expense of the nation. That said I can only see more turmoil for the whole nation.
The PPP should pull back from the brink, I post the complaint of the Pakistan