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Marriage of convenience and more

tenth April, Imran Khan was removed premiership through vote of no-confidence in National Assembly. It wouldn’t be possible without marriage of heterogeneous opposition parties of convenience. with the opposition success in removing them common enemy now ability of opposition to support this marriage is questioned. Cracks most likely begin appear soon in privates of in grand coalition which mainly consists of PPS, PML-N, JUI-F, MMK and other parties.

political history littered with parting of unions after removal of a common enemy. Alliances are of various political parties against Ayub Khan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Ziaul Haq and Pervez Musharraf broke up when these personalities lost power. Back in 2008, PML-N agreed to form coalition government with PPS. However, with resignation of President Musharraf in In August 2008, PML-N withdrew from coalition government as of disagreement and returned to politics of confrontation.

Earlier this year the alarmists in PPP, PML-N and JUI-F began to suggest to Imran Khan not to give up his “arrogant, implacable, vengeful, authoritarian, parochial and power-centric approach, and they should hit before he reins in media and his political opponents and controls vital government institutions. However, the question was how remove it because all previous attempts to achieve this goal were failed. Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto enter into negotiations with Shehbaz Sharif in Lahore for a while back with purpose to collect support of other parties for a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan. Previously PML-N reluctantly join Arms with PPP without first agreement on number game. However, both sides were forced join strength out of fear that Imran Khan will appoint his confidant as the commander-in-chief of the army of November – when the current army commander retires – as part of of his strategy to ensure electoral victory in 2023 vote.

It was a conviction of PPP and PML-N, as well as the persistent political maneuvering that allowed them to finally move in no-confidence motion against Prime Minister in National Assembly. Prior to this, they had to conduct serious lobbying to collect the magic number – 172. They sought support from PTI allies in National Assembly, including PML-Q, MQM, BAP and others. They are also convinced nonconformists of PTI who felt bitter and allowed down as of behavior of Imran Khan.

privates of The PPP, PML-N and other opposition parties were convinced that Prime Minister Imran Khan was weakened because he did not more on same page with the establishment, which supported him throughout his tenure. Level of support which Imran Khan received from the most powerful the institution was unprecedented from the start. However, later onPrime Minister Imran lost confidence of senior management of the institution, fallen out on things to do.

PTI governmentpoor governance in Russia, deepening economic crisis, selective accountability and nonconformist elements in in media led to erosion of ‘onePage phenomenon. Frequent reversals, foreign policy blunders and unnecessary confrontation with The West made strong pillars of power consider further providing space Imran Khan. It was Khan’s arrogance, self-centered approach, lack of of political wisdom and narrow vision on critical domestic and foreign policy issues that provided redemption for once-discredited opposition parties. If he were humble, polite, wise and insightful in case with his political opponents instead of addressing them with derogatory words like rats, shoe shiners, diesel, etc., he would complete his term with Grace. However, he was surrounded by a bunch of sycophants and lost understanding of the basic realities, which gave the opposition with ample opportunity to strike back and push him out power.

Now that Shehbab Sharif has replaced Imran Khan as head of in governmentmillion dollar question: how long will it be government last? Will this marriage of convenience work or will it be transform into marriage of inconvenience? Let’s analyze the situation from two sides.

First, never in in history of Pakistan has government – compiled of such diverse elements are included in power. In fact, the position of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif more fragile compared to Imran Khan. This range of political parties can only be successful if the interests of the country are a priority. Otherwise it will also added to long list of failed political marriages of convenience.

Secondly, government can survive if PTI remains real threat led by PML coalition as of feeling threatened that Imran Khan did not dead horse. However, if PTI keeps a low profile and focuses on learning from their failures, cracks in the ruling coalition may reappear soon after all leading to break. The leadership of PTI should show political wisdom, especially its chairman Imran Khan should refuse politics of quarrel and excitement and reorientation on strengthening it party to perform it is better in upcoming elections. Paradoxically, his story of American plot to unseat him government through no-confidence movements and calling opposition parties traitors work against they instead strengthen coalition government.

Predictably not possible for Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will support him coalition government as internal contradictions within the rank and file of united opposition will soon appear. DMK, PPP and Baloch NNAs are definitely big challenge to subsistence of Shehbaz Sharif government. Given this scenario, one can not help but interesting who recognize and solve problems facing masses.

Published in Express Tribune, 17 April.th2022.

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Derrick Santistevan
Derrick Santistevan
Derrick is the Researcher at World Weekly News. He tries to find the latest things going around in our world and share it with our readers.

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