At breaking point

DESPITE PPP spokesperson’s optimistic assertion that the issue of the deposed judges would be resolved successfully, the relations between the PPP and the PML-N nearly reached the breaking point on Tuesday. Inside reports indicate that if the ANP and JUI-F had not intervened, they were likely to have parted company. Many fear that the crisis had in fact only been postponed for 72 hours. That this should have happened only a day after President Musharraf’s resignation is all the more ominous. The former President’s supporters have all along maintained that what had kept the two parties together was the opposition to the President and they would revert to no-holds-barred squabbles after he was no more there.