RIP!
Allegations on TTP for PPP’s rout in the previous elections is one thing, but those who live in the province know that PPP is a lost cause in the province. Shifting responsibilities without changing course will not achieve anything. Is the party high command deliberating on this, as without correction the next elections could again be PMLN’s.
Course correction for Pakistani democracy - Ayaz Amir
On the larger political canvas too what is happening should be no cause for alarm. Zardari is simply not interested in challenging Nawaz Sharif, not out of any love for democracy but because he has powerful business and real-estate interests to protect in Sindh, especially Karachi. Ever a realist, those interests have a more powerful attraction for him than any nonsense about re-establishing his party in Punjab. For all practical purposes, the PPP in Punjab is dead.
A vacuum has thus arisen but, no matter under what tutelage or patronage, it is being filled by the new cacophony we are hearing from the right: Imran, Qadri, Shujaat Hussain, etc. Nawaz Sharif is in no danger of ouster, not unless he gets more heedless. Through knocks both gentle and hard he is merely being taught the limits of the permissible…and the doable.