The most well known are '88 and '92, in 88 the establishment agreed after a long delay to letting the PPP in power if Afghan policy, foreign affairs were left alone and the presidency was given to GIK instead of the movement for restoration of democracy nominee Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan. The PPP agreed to this faustian bargain and saw the establishment rapidly back away from the deal through exploiting differences between the governing parties and propping up the IJI with large sums of cash (google mehran bank scandal if you will, for the list of names) , in '92 the exact opposite happened when an embattled president GIK struck a deal to stay in power with BB, the end result was Zardari was out of prison and the PPP was back in power..**but GIK didn’t get his re-election. **
The moral of the story is a day (what to say of an year) is a long time in politics..
With reference to the old guard in the PPP read the following:
What about President Musharraf? Has he thought of who will replace him?
“Whom would you like as your president?” he queries in response. “A man elected by a majority of the parliament or someone struggling to keep his job, too eager to compromise just so that he can hang on?”
There have been too many ambiguous statements already, ambiguous but very deliberate it seems. Isn’t that putting his party under too much pressure?
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“The politburo has to be broken,” he says referring to the old guard or “uncles” within the PPP.
“We cannot get anywhere with the politburo intact,” he says without batting an eyelid. **