It seems the PPP’s defacto boss Mr Asif Ali Zardari has ended his self-imposed exile and is scheduled to land in this country after eighteen months. It will be quite ironical here to state that the persons in the category of Mr Asif Ali Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif are citizens of this country only in the sense and to the extent that they were born here, and it is only here that they can acquire power that motors the growth of their immense wealth. Otherwise there are other countries too that they can call their home. Most of their wealth in fact is part of the economies of those countries. UK and UAE in this respect figure quite high. But the names like Panama and Switzerland too are often mentioned in this context. We may need an investigation agency of international level to update our knowledge about the countries that are homes to the unknown and undetermined millions and billions of these practitioners of the money-making craft.
Is Mr Zardari’s “homecoming” a part of certain secret deal? A great deal has been said about some kind of ‘MUK MUKA’ between Zardari Sahib and Mian Sahib. If this ‘MUK MUKA’ or SECRET UNDERSTANDING is still intact and in vogue, the ongoing war of words between Bilawal and company on the one hand and the likes of Rana Sanuallah, Khwaja Saad Rafique and Abid Sher Ali etc on the other hand, is obviously PURE THEATRE— an attempt on the part of the partners-in-power to give the PPP an opportunity to consolidate its OPPOSITION image.
But there may also be some ‘reality’ in the war of the words. One thing is certain the ‘Muk Muka’ was directed not against Imran Khan but the GHQ.
The balance of power may now suddenly have shifted far too much in favour of Mian Nawaz Sharif to necessitate a re-visit to the Political Goals on the part of Asif Ali Zardari. He might have realised that Raiwind could turn out to be a more unmanageable monster than Rawalpindi.
Can some kind of ‘new thinking’ on the part of Mr Zardari lead to a new blance of political power in the country? Can the PPP and the PTI come to a realization that only some kind of joint opposition to the PML (N)’s growing hold on power can arrest the country’s slide into authoritarian Monarchy?
Army will still remain the decisive factor. But the Opposition to Mian Nawaz Sharif’s authoritarian longings will have to prove its ‘MUSCLE’ inorder to enable the Army to stand in the way of Pakistan degenerating into a Banana Republic.
Can Asif Ali Zardari and Imran Khan draw some inspiration from the historical fact that NECESSITY brought Roosevelt and Churchill on the same table with Stalin?
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