Crisis set to change future political dynamics
Faced with tough and impractical conditions from N and Q Leagues, the short of parliamentary strength Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government is making last ditch efforts to win back support of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement at the cost of more stringent conditions, party sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.Air Jordan 23 The sources said the communication channel between the former allies are still open and the PPP’s top leadership is in the process of negotiating a deal with the MQM on conditions it had earlier refused as suicidal for the party in Sindh. The sources said the PPP high command has almost conceded to Karachi-based MQM’s demand of withdrawing its proposed local government bill meant to reverse the local bodies system to pre-Musharraf period. The existing demarcation of constituencies in Karachi and Hyderabad would also be allowed to stay as demanded by the MQM, said a party source from Karachi on the condition of anonymity. The top PPP leadership has, however, convinced the MQM leadership to rejoin the coalition government besides shunning the opposition to the recent hike in petroleum prices. The sources said modalities have almost been firmed up by the two sides and arrangements are being finalised to make the agreement public by asking a high profile PPP leader to visit the MQM central secretariat soon. Air Max 88 The sources said President Asif Ali Zardari has been camping in Karachi for the past few days keeping the party’s hope alive to come out of imminent threat of survival of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his government, which is staying in the office only because of the incapability of a divided opposition. The PML-N, which has extended its deadline for three more days after the assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer in Islamabad on Tuesday to the PPP government to respond in yes or no on bringing in revolutionary changes in the governance, was the only parliamentary party capable of brining in a no-confidence motion against the prime minister. However, since it has no support from other parliamentary parties to form a coalition government in place of the one in office now, it was reluctant to do so to avoid taking the blame of derailing a political government it pledged not to do under the Charter of Democracy it signed with the PPP in 2005 during Musharraf regime. Air Max 87 Analysts believe that no renewed political understanding between the PPP and the MQM would help the shaken-up democratic set up in the country to retake roots since the political turmoil triggered by the JUI-F and the MQM through unabated blows to the political set up has triggered a serious political crisis bound to orchestrate country’s internal and external dynamics in the future. Though the crisis is on, it seems the government can survive without any change for some more time, as, inside gurus believe, both Muslim Leagues have backed the PPP government to continue in the name of continuity of democracy, and maybe, when the political situation stabilises, they can consider taking advantage of its governance-related failures and call for mid-term elections. Both Muslim Leagues, who can be decisive factors in toppling the PPP government in the centre, actually do not want to become part of any alliance, but would back the PPP to improve governance, which they believe it would not be able to do. The Muslim League factor seems to be an attempt to kill two birds with one stone by standing along with democracy with outside support while at the same time seeking to push it into a deep ditch, saying it has failed to deliver. Analysts say such examples exist in various parliamentary democracies, such as India where the Communist Party of India helped the Congress-run minority political government by extending outside support and without joining the cabinet. However, they said the situation in Pakistan demand from the political forces the same, but the decreased tolerance level and voluminous crisis had not made the political parties mature enough to work on single point agenda of sustaining the democratic setup against an establishment hell-bent to keep the political system tattering. Political pundits believe the uncertainty will help the establishment further delay the demand for military action in North Waziristan and the greater say the clergy is attaining in Pakistan is helping this cause of the establishment. Air Max 24-7 They believe that assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer, even if not a conspiracy, has helped religious parties further screw the democratic forces by getting a greater say in the policy-making apparatus of the state. This situation that has arisen following Salmaan Taseer’s murder had weakened the democratic forces at the cost of gaining a greater negotiating power to the religious parties swaying support of bigotry on non-issues like the demand of procedural changes in the law against blasphemy. They say the way the events are unfolding, it is getting obvious that politicians, particularly those belonging to the ruling PPP, are being bundled up to face consequences similar to those meted out to its leaders and workers since the very creation of the party.Gucci Outlet The situation that exists at the national horizon today, political pundits say, appeared to be a curtain raiser to change in the internal and external landscape according to the thoughts of country’s real power holder - the military establishment. 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