Zardari's political acumen gives birth to new realities

By conceding advantages to opposition parties, he has brought all political stakeholders in the country together and they now share the post election political booty along with the two major political parties PPP and PML-N who swept the poll against the expectations of the PML-Q.

Zardari who once called PML-Q as a killer party (Qatil league) has abstained from name calling, which has created goodwill in the opposition camp. The goodwill was reflected where PML-Q members supported his nomination as presidential candidate in the Sindh assembly.

So far Asif Zardari has succeeded in wooing PML-N and holding them back into the national coalition.

The most sticking point between him and his party and the PML-N is restoration of judges. PML-N has dug its heels on the issue but Zardari has shown more flexibility and has agreed to restore judiciary.

Zardari is striving very hard to retain the coalition but political forces outside parliament are proving spanner in the works and are influencing PML (N) to review its decision to remain in the coalition. These political forces outside parliament have just one agenda - to make political life of PPP difficult and to bring it into a corner.

The judges’ issue has been so politicised that it will be difficult for the democratic forces to sympathetically look at the restoration of judges who have directly or indirectly become a part of the political outfit. The political flags of PML (N), Tahreek-e-Insaf and particularly Jamaat-e-Islami dominated each rally taken out in support of the judges.

The presence of the flags of Jamaat was so heavy that it gave the hint that the deposed Chief Justice has draped himself into the Jamaat flag.