Re: surprise candidate for ppp prime minister
If that is the case then Aitezaz Ahsan is an ideal candidate for PM of Pakistan. I don't know about Ahmad Mukhtar. Can you tell him about more? Is he the same person who being minister (perhaps Health in BB's first government), known as the honest man and travelling in his private Suzuki Alto without any escort to perform his official duties. PPP has excellent people for PMship, though PML N has also one or two, Javed Hashmi is one of them.
Ahmad Mukhtar was commerce minister in last PPP government...had to spend many years in jail due to textile quota scam. ..his brother Ahmad Saeed served as PIA chairman and was very close to Musharraf during the same time...he is very bitter with the brother and feels he did not do enough to get him released...a split has taken place in the family and Ahmad Mukhtar is no longer in main stream Service group..however he is very close to Zardari.
PPP trying to neutralise the rumors by spreading counter rumors through some senior party members that Amin Faheem has already been elected as their parliamentary leader...some of the smaller TV channels already carrying the news...
There is a big realisation and reality check in PPP that their vote bank has eroded in Punjab...it has become a wadera party in Punjab...depending mostly on strong land lord candidates in South Punjab...who do not need party stamp to get elected...hence the decision to elect a leader from popular semi urban central/nothern Punjab...to neutrlise Nawaz popularity in the long term...another factor going in Ahmad Mukhtar's favour Is that he has stayed loyal to the party through thick and thin...and most of all Zardari feels very comfortable with the guy...