Pir Pagaro is to come to Lahore very soon, to meet PML(N) Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif. They must meet him with open minds, and be ready to join the All-Pakistan Muslim League, to invite them to join, which is the purpose of his visit to Lahore. The Pirs Functional League has merged into the new party, and the Sharifs have known the Pir for as long as they have been in politics, and he has been involved in League unification efforts well before that. The Pir is coming to the meeting after making some of his usual cryptic and oracular statements to a party delegation from Balochistan, which called on him at his Karachi residence on Thursday. The PML is, as before, split into many factions, though the APML has brought together several factions on a single platform. Leaguers, particularly the Sharif brothers, should note that, while the League has been perennially split, the PPP, the party which most benefited from PML disunity in the 1970 elections in what was then West Pakistan, has never in its history, with neither the Shaheed Bhutto or Sherpao Groups ever getting any roots, or winning seats outside of the home seats gained, by both the founders, Murtaza Bhutto and Aftab Sherpao. While the PPP has borne so many vicissitudes yet remained together, the PML has split time and again over ego issues. The Sharif brothers must not allow ego to stand in the way of party unity, and must keep in view that the Pirs efforts will not be rewarded by anything. If the PML(N) is merged within the APML, even after the next election, the Pir will not get any of the great offices of state. If he is trying for party unity at this stage of his life, he deserves to be reciprocated positively. Party unity is not a personal goal, but in the case of the PML, the countrys founding party, is a national cause. The entire country has suffered before from PML disunity; and cannot afford to continue suffering.