I think Zardari played “ek teer do shikar” Politically mqm has lost the grounds against more mature and experienced national party. DD rightly pointed out revival of old commissioner system hitted hard. PML(N) looked stupid by the betrayal of mqm which is expert in back stabing.**
http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/19/mqms-move-helps-ppp-isolates-pml-n.html
MQM’s move helps PPP, isolates PML-N
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ISLAMABAD, July 18: The return of the MQM governor in Sindh is a gain for the PPP and virtually isolates the PML-N, shattering the dream of the largest opposition party of forming a grand alliance to confront the government.
Although the Muttahida Qaumi Movement says it will sit on opposition benches in parliament and the Sindh Assembly, the Pakistan Muslim League-N doesn’t appear to be pleased by this stance.
“MQM’s role as an opposition party has become questionable after it has accepted the office of Sindh governor,” PML-N’s spokesman Ahsan Iqbal said.
Since a governor, he said, was a presidential choice, Dr Ishratul Ibad was now a nominee of President Asif Ali Zardari.
He said the people and the PML-N would welcome the return of Dr Ibad if it brought peace in Karachi. “However, if Karachi continues to bleed the people will consider this step as yet another act of opportunistic politics.”
The PML-N leader said more than 100 people had died in Karachi due to the recent political crisis in Sindh and people would like to know who were responsible for the killings. “Dr Ishratul Ibad will get his Governor’s House back, but those who have lost their near and dear ones in Karachi will not get their brothers, sons, fathers and husbands back,” he said.
MQM’s spokesman Wasay Jalil brushed aside all the aspersions and said: “We have not breached the trust of the PML-N.”
He said the MQM would continue to sit on opposition benches and cooperate with other opposition parties and would soon contact PML-N leaders about the development.
He said PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had told members of his party not to issue statements against the MQM and perhaps Mr Iqbal was not aware of the directive.
Mr Iqbal denied having received any such instruction.
Earlier this month, the PML-N and the MQM had decided to play the role of a ‘combined opposition’ in parliament and jointly requisitioned Senate and National Assembly sessions — which have been summoned for Thursday — to discuss the Karachi situation, alleged non-implementation of the Supreme Court’s orders and alleged rigging in last month’s elections in Azad Kashmir.
Later, the two parties were found poles apart on the restoration of the commissioner system in Sindh by the PPP-led government. The MQM opposed the move but got no support from the PML-N.
The PML-N was also disturbed by MQM’s support for JUI-F’s Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri as the Leader of Opposition in the Senate, instead of PML-N challenger Ishaq Dar.
The leaders of the two arch rivals of the past established informal and backdoor contacts soon after MQM’s decision to part ways with the PPP-led coalition at the centre and in Sindh last month in protest against the ruling party’s alleged role in the postponement of elections for the AJK Legislative Assembly’s two seats, most of whose Kashmiri refugee voters live in Karachi. The polling will now be held on Wednesday.
In the sessions of the National Assembly and the Senate, the PML-N is likely to find itself isolated, being at odds with two other opposition parties, the MQM and JUI-F.
jis pe tamasha shuru huwa tha mostly