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Pakistani Politicians In Tatters A
Weak After Musharraf's Humiliation
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August 26, 2008 Hardly a week
after president Pervez Musharraf quit his
post, hounded out by the joint moral and
political force of a strong grand coalition of
the PPP, PML-N and other parties, the politics
of reconciliation and amity lies in tatters
with the PML-N deciding to ditch the coalition
and opting to sit on the opposition benches
and Maulana Fazlur Rehman of JUI declaring
from the roof top that he and his party could
not co-exist with PPP and Asif Ali Zardari.
Although the fate of the
coalition was almost a foregone conclusion
keeping events of recent days in mind, the
shock of the disastrous break up will have
shaken everyone, not least the people of
Pakistan, many of whom must have thought that
with General Musharraf’s departure, some
semblance of stability and security would
return to the country.
Equally disappointing is the
reality that the political parties seem to
have not learnt too many lessons from the
past. People may well see a return to the
squabbling and bickering of the 1990s when
fighting between Mr Sharif’s party and the PPP
then led by Benazir Bhutto often ended up
paralyzing government and with it governance.
Of course, there is a very
real fear that the same could happen,
especially with the country’s largest province
firmly in Mr Sharif’s party’s grip.
The sceptics and naysayers -
and there are many - who seemed sure that once
the president would go the coalition would
fall given that his removal was the primary
objective uniting the various components seem
to have been proven correct. In any case, they
will also point out to the fact that as far as
political ideology, worldview and related
character traits are concerned, the PPP and
the PML-N were poles apart.
For example one just has to
take a look at their respective stands on the
war against terror and realize how dissimilar
their views are.
With the new battle-lines drawn, Mr Sharif has
played his cards well for the time being,
presumably wanting to further his populist
credentials, by naming a respected former
Supreme Court chief justice as his party’s
presidential candidate.
The numbers game is now on and
horse trading, blackmailing, vote-stealing and
related pursuits may well re-emerge as they
did in the 1990s.
And the worst part is that in
this complete mess unleashed by the break-up
of the coalition, the real issues of the
people, their security, bread and butter as
well as the economic challenge of tackling
inflation and reducing poverty, and the Hydra
of militancy and terrorism may well be
relegated further down the government’s list
of priorities - since it will be fighting not
for the survival of its citizens but for its
own.
Asif Zardari would have done well had he
exercised greater caution in dealing with Mr
Sharif since the latter’s support was direly
needed to address the many problems that the
country faces. Instead he has preferred to
grab power first and leave the rest to later.
Of course, it could be said
for Mr Sharif, that a party which won around a
quarter of seats in parliament should claim to
speak for the whole country and hence it is he
who is to blame for throwing the country into
further disarray. While only the passage of
time - which will then allow the benefit of
hindsight - will tell which leader is to blame
more, one thing is for sure: neither will gain
much in this process and that the biggest
losers will be democracy, political stability
and perhaps even civilian rule. |
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