Is the government going to fall on its sword?

If the recent statements of Aitzaz Ahsan and Rana Sanaullah are taken together and studied in depth and in unison they create an impression, which is downright erroneous, that the Establishment might be behind the present and past sit-ins and agitation of the opposition, particularly of the PAT and the PTI. Rana Sanaullah in a TV interview has said that there is an outside chance that the Establishment might be pulling the strings of Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri while Aitzaz Ahsan has said that the ruling party in its dialogue with the opposition aimed at drafting the TORs on Panama leaks wants to bring under their purview issues like killing of Osama in abbottabad and Hamoodur Rehman Commission’s report also. Who does the ruling party want to belittle by flogging these two dead horses is not difficult to discern. If whatever these two leaders had said was correct it means that the prime minister hasn’t learnt from his past blunders and he is picking up an unwarranted new quarrel with the Establishment——a folly which had cost him his premiership twice in the past. There is a flaw in the thinking of the government that Establishment was behind the sit-ins of PAT and PTI because it was the government and not the parties staging the sit-ins in the federal capital in the not-too-distant past that had desired that the Establishment may intercede on its behalf in the matter for letting it off the hook. Again the Establishment had nothing to do with the Panama leaks as they were bolt from the blue against the corrupt rulers. By taking on the Establishment rather unnecessarily, the rulers would be committing their hara kiri by falling on their sword and thus writing their own political obituary with their own hands. The more they shilly shallied in agreeing on the TORs on the Panama leaks the more would there be public anger against them.
They should not pass on the buck of their present predicament on the Establishment. They have none to blame but themselves for the sins committed by them. Had they not committed financial shenanigans they would never have found themselves in trouble today.