Nice article.
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Failed aide puts Zardari in a spot
“Taseer, who is really close to Zardari, has placed the position in an embarrassing position by failing to deliver and exacerbating the political crisis.
The governor had done so on the assurance given by Hussain and [cousin and former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry] Pervez Elahi,” a PPP source revealed here yesterday.
He said the governor’s “over-confidence” of getting the required number of MPs could be one of the main reasons that necessitated the imposition of the governor’s rule by the president.
“Zardari might have gone for allowing [former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s] PML-N to elect its new leader of the house in Punjab Assembly after disqualification of Sharif by court, but he trusted Taseer’s word, ” the source privy to the development revealed
The governor’s rule was imposed on February 25 last and since then the PPP has managed to cause one defection in the PML-N besides sending just six dissidents back to their parent party in PML-Q in two weeks.
Besides a number of other reasons, the source said, there was a lack of homework on the part of Taseer who primarily banked on Elahi.
this is wrong assesment.. it is zardari who is to blame.
he needed to prove he is big leader and wanted to get out of benazirs reflection, after getting punjab he would have said look now you have punjab govt and i had achieved which no leader in PPP has done before…