single issue politics is more movement based than personality...but the reality is if Musharraf is isolated, discredited and exposed for what he is today it's not because of deals. It was the black coat movement which weakened him to the extent that he had to deal.. Political pragmatism works when there is a common sense of the rules of the game, unfortunately in Paksitan thanks to the armys destruction of institutions there are no neutral empires to guarantee a code of conduct. So the PPP backtracking on it's deal with Mush is no different from Mush backtracking on his commitments ( I pledge to abide by the conconstitution..I pledge to resign from the army in 04 etc etc) . Those who have gone for pragmatism have ended up being abandoned and targetted (virtually every political party that negotiated with the establishment, Awami League, to PPP to NAP, to MMA), the lesson of Pakistans history is Pakistans establishment can't be negotiated with because in the end they can resort to violence to get what they want..political paties can't compete with that..
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