The PTI chairman is to lead a protest rally from Peshawar to Islamabad on 7th of this month as a part of his campaign aimed at removing the prime minister for his alleged involvement in the Panama leaks. Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri is also flexing his muscles and has threatened to launch a movement against the government from 6th August 2016. The PPP co- chairperson Bilawal Bhutto has also given a green signal to his party men to gird up their loins and jog into action against the government in coming September also on more or less the same grounds .
There is, however, a difference in the approach of these three parties in the matter. While Imran Khan has been consistent in his opposition to the Prime minister right from day one and has been highlighting corruption in high places for the last couple of years , there is no such thing in the PPP which has been, till recently , playing the role of friendly opposition and has come into action only when some blue eyed boys and cronies of Zardari were hauled by the Rangers for their financial shenanigans. Even otherwise the kid glove treatment of the PPP with the PML(N) has , politically speaking cost the former heavily. Its leadership realised that if they continued any further in their lukewarn attitude with the government party and did not bare their teeth to it they would lose whatever little public credibility they have at the moment . Its choice of timings is good because in September the weather would have become milder. Dr Qadri is more concernced about the Model Town episode in which his party men were killed . As far political rehabilitation of PPP is concernced Bilawal has a much difficult task on his hands . Not only has he to win the confidence of old PPP workers in the country, he has to rebuild his party as a solid and viable opposition to the government . It would be difficult for him to dislodge Imran Khan from his number two position in the political set up of the country as the PTI has filled the political vacuum which had occurred following the slide in the PPP’ s popularity in the country when Zardari was ruling the roost in the country.
One wonders how the prime minister who has a dicky heart and who does not enjoy high moral ground on the Panama leaks is going to survive the forthcoming three different agitations aimed at his removal from power!It would depend a great deal on his other political allies. Would they also follow suit and jump on Zardari’s bandwagon or would they exploit the weakness of the prime minister and squeeze more political and monetary benefits from him in lieu of standing behind him foursquare in his hour of crisis?Only time will answer this question.
There are many, however, who still believe that Zardari would not go to the extent of dislodging the PM and ensure that he completes his constitutional term up to 2018.
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