Change of heart

THE parting of ways between the two major partners of the ruling coalition may lead to new political alignments ahead of the presidential election and in the days to come there is a likelihood of the coming together of some strange bedfellows. The PPP, despite being in a comfortable position to grab the Presidency, is lobbying hard to woo the forces it had been accusing in the past of involvement in Benazir Bhutto's murder. Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, who met Ch Shujaat Hussain and Ch Pervez Elahi in Islamabad the other day, sought their support for Mr Zardari besides discussing with them the possibility of the PML-Q's cooperation with the PPP at the Centre as well as in Punjab. This was the first interaction between the two political rivals and it took place at a time when a PPP delegation was holding crucial talks with Mian Nawaz Sharif in Lahore.