Zardari’s Great Game: Part 2
By Samad Khurram • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look • 22 CommentsAn update on the previous post: Zardari dancing on the tunes of the establishment.
The script has been written down. All actors are dancing to music played by the forces behind the scenes.
The works of the establishment:
- Zardari’s murder cases dropped
- Zardari’s corruption cases dropped
- BA requirement dropped
- By-elections delayed
- Attacks on lawyers, another massacre in Karachi and attack on Sher Afgan to divert attention
- Petition put in SC when the count down is nearing its end to stop the restoration
- Food, electricity, Oil crises (might not be intentional but do divert focus from the movement).
- Supporting Negotiations between MQM and PPP; PML-Q and PPP
- Willingness to drop 58-2(b) and support Zardari as PM.
The works of Zardari:
- No question of impeachment raised by Zardari (and his wife in an email to CNN said she would blame Musharraf for her murder!)
- PPP members have even called Musharraf “an asset” for Pakistan
- Needless delay over the judges. Creation of a issue out of a non issue.
- Active hostility towards the judiciary and lawyers (the only lucky ones to have been issued a charge sheet)
- Telling Aitzaz to shut up and go on with his agitation; as if he cared. Also ridiculing the whole deadline with “yeh ulti ginti walay baaz aa jayain.”
- Creation of confusion by offering indecent offers such as minus one, minus two and offering to make CJ the governor of Balochistan
- Deliberate confusion over the date of countdown, by Zardari, Sherry Rehman, etc
- Trying to find replacement for pro-judiciary PML-N through MQM and others in the guise of “national reconciliation”.
- Constitutional Package.
- Backdoor meetings between PPP and Musharraf
- Retention of Malik Qayyum as AG and his clear shift to becoming pro-Zardari and also supporting many court decisions that were pro-Zardari.
- Delaying the issue of restoration from the first parliament session to 30 days.
- Then creation of a committee which leads to deadlock.
- Deadline about to pass and Zardari mysteriously runs out of the country.
- Another deadline set. 12 more days bought.
- Zardari says this deadline not binding either
- Media bashing by the PPP
- Forward bloc of PML-Q formed, will support PPP
- MQM who was responsible for 40 odd deaths of PPP workers on 12the May alone. joins PPP govt. (However it is also true that its hard to rule Sindh without MQM).
- Zardari willing to accept PML-Q if Chaudhries and Mushahid Hussain are removed. Hence they end up supporting judges restoration: the only way for their own political survival.
- Today’s news: Musharraf meets with Shujaat and discusses new leadership for PML-United, all cronies under one banner.
- Pir Pagaro most likely candidate to lead the party. Pir Pagaro will be acceptable to PPP workers who jootafied Arbab Ghulam Rahim.
- Zardari trying to include PCO-judges as well as later appointments, which neither takes the judiciary to pre-Nov 3rd position nor will be acceptable by any of us or the lawyers or PML-NForeign Influence:
- US Still supporting Musharraf.
- Peterson meeting Zardari Nawaz every other day
- EU foreign policy chief claims Mush to stay till his end of tenure!
Let’s not lose the independent judiciary of pre-Nov 3 to Zardari after winning the struggle for its restoration against Musharraf.
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too young to participate as columnist or writter .by defination a layman is a person who is unaware of ground relities ,and depends on info being delivered in the form of speech ,words ,or opinion,as a o format floated by the interpretor.although ,such a person has all requisite as required to be tagged in the contest of opinion ,but the factors that over come the facts and figures are dominant in such person and his directional thinkining ,vide news and papers ,as only source ,curtails his thinkinking mechanism.enjoy america .
Samad: a very good investigative article. We need to remember the past. We may forgive, but we should never forget. You have very lucidly illustrated the dynamics of our so-called leadership.
Raza Haider: It seems that your clinic is on the verge of disaster. At least, use the correct spellings. You can’t even spell the word ‘definition’, and you are telling an accomplished writer that he couldn’t write? Sir, you are an idiot.
Yeah, the judiciary who said ‘No’ to dictator is more important for nation than the crook-turned-angel Zardari.
Samad, do you think that if US stops his aid to Pakistan, then could we survive a single day? Perhaps that is why our leaders are just hapless when Patterson comes.
Dr. Raza Haider sahib,
I have been following your comments and it is clear to me that anyone who opposes Zardari or Musharraf is considered to be young, lay man foolish.
Please learn some morals and stop being another Mir Jaffar. We already have too many of those in our ranks.
Saif
Dr imran has one point agenda ,counter in the way of encounter,so to counter ,that encounter may not look as encounter but as opinion to counter.
I am willing to sponsor Dr. Raza Haider’s treatment to the nearest mental rehab and also provide him free English classes, a dictionary and a class on manners for the rest of his life.
come on patriot i have no reservations with you ,mr imran has inborn error ,let me taclke him.
dr. raza, I am sure its you who needs the treatment for rabies. You bark and bite at every author and commentor and you are here to demolish the free speech at this site. You consider yourself ‘Aql-qul’, I have read your articles and comments, you are long diatribes are just baloney. So shut up.
Samad, you have nicely summarized the truth. Thanks.
Dr Razahaider
please don’t be personal with any commentor or writer
Dr. Raza Haider
You are a paid ISI agent who is desperately trying to save Musharraf and Zardari.
Allah say darain is say pehlay ka Allah insaaf aap per bhi ker dalay.
Stop being a traitor of the country and help the people of Pakistan restore the CJ who was said NO to listen to a dictator and promised us hopes of an independent judiciary.
We want justice, we want all dictators to be hanged and an end to the works of Army and the Establishment.
thanks for the compliment ,
Aftab S. Alam on May 2nd, 2008 :
Dr. Imran on May 2nd, 2008 :
Aftab, you smug self-satisfied and self-righteous agent of status quo, a team of you, Musharraf and Malik Qayyum should be sent over to Gallows Land.
Aftab S. Alam on May 2nd, 2008 :
Imran you talk about sending me to “Gallows”! I thought you were a doctor? Tell me Changis Khan and barbarians like him were your forefathers; and you grew up in an environment where Hitler and Nazis were your heroes. Come on admit it and you will have my sypathies for your this pathetic approach to political opponents and difference of opinion.
Aftab S. Alam on May 2nd, 2008 :
Imran, such discussions are way above your intelliegence level so don’t even try. Best for you is eat something and just relax, don’t exert your deformed brain too much. Nature has endowed you with horizon of a cabbage and your limitation is not your fault, your defects and deficiencies are congenital and irreversiable.
Dr. Imran on May 5th, 2008 :
“Raza Haider: It seems that your clinic is on the verge of disaster. At least, use the correct spellings. You can’t even spell the word ‘definition’, and you are telling an accomplished writer that he couldn’t write? Sir, you are an idiot.”
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We would appreciate if you all please please don’t indulge in personal attacks and focus on your opinion about the posts.
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Khurram’s desperate attempt at being a medieval courtier and a court jester; he sure can hope that his masters will take note of his services.
This is our system.
Two unelected leadrers are running the show of democracy.
i.e. Zardari & Nawaz Sherrif.