The PPP-P is facing splits, the MMA collapsing, PML-Nawaz humiliated, and top govt leaders are now publicly admitting that the NRO was a grand ruse to divide the opposition. With all that now even pro-opposition papers like the Nation are conceding that Pakistan’s opposition parties are a cast of clowns. 
http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/oct-2007/8/editorials2.php
A cast of clowns
THIS government does not face much of a political opposition. Throughout the five years of the current political dispensation - and the three years prior to it - the opposition in general has been consistent in expressing its distaste for the military regime and has been propounding its plans to bring the government to its knees through a combination of agitational politics and parliamentary strategy. That tough-talking veneer has been all but stripped in the presidential election, revealing within the broad spectrum of the opposition either complicity with the government or sheer disorganisation and ineffectiveness. Much has been written about the country’s largest opposition party’s vectoring off over to the government’s side. Its abstaining, rather than resigning, from the presidential elections was tacit support for the government, in exchange for perhaps the oddest and most unfair bit of legislation in the country’s history, the National Reconciliation Ordinance. And then we have the alliance of right-wing parties and their covert complicity with the military regime. Despite the bad odds that the opposition in general had during the elections, it was the MMA that had a most effective trump card, that of dissolution of the NWFP Provincial Assembly, the only chamber of legislature that had a national opposition party in power. The dissolution would have led to the breakup of the electoral college, and with it, would have further constrained the scope of interpretation with which the judiciary could have decided on petitions on the said matter. The JUI-F’s refusal to dissolve the assembly before the presidential elections is unjustifiable. Though its principal ally in the MMA, the JI, might be raising hue and cry for the moment, its antics look like an exercise in good cop/bad cop. The solidarity of the MMA, an alliance that has brought the JI actual political clout, is more important for its leaders than the struggle against the current regime. What remained of the opposition might not have shown complicity with the government but was extremely feeble, which is, arguably, worse. The PML (N)’s diminutive power in bringing people out on the streets was demonstrated when its chief was jetted out of the country; not much was expected of the call for strike given by the APDM. The lion’s share of the protests came from the legal community. Though it is in the legal fraternity that hopes seem to be invested in for the moment, it is impossible for them to expect to take the place of the political opposition. We have before us perhaps the most impotent political opposition in the country’s history.