Resignations, not impeachments

Still, we have to wonder how the son of the builder of Bambino Cinema in Karachi is about to become our President. No wonder the Cinema Owners Association will welcome the move, even if cinemas are no longer a great business, unless you can convert them into something or the other. Dare one say that Altaf’s MQM’s support is because of the cinema? No, we daren’t, not unless we want to answer awkward questions. It doesn’t matter that Asif is going to become President because he is a son-in-law. What matters is that he is going to be President. And why not? He does belong to a small province, yet he has been to a cadet college. The Navy must be pretty proud of him, because he went to their cadet college, at Petaro, which should make him accepted as the appointing authority for the service chiefs.

But what about Nawaz Sharif, who must have agreed to Asif being elected, so long as he let the judges be restored. The judges were merely an embarrassment to Musharraf, but an embarrassment he was not willing to face, even if it cost him his last remaining office, which it did. And so embarrassing was the embarrassment, that Asif Zardari has proved unwilling to restore the judges now that Musharraf the Red-faced with Embarrassment has gone. The PPP has already asked for the judges, but it wants to ask for more. Like the PML-N taking the responsibility for at least the fuel prices, if not the wheat price too, along with the judges, before it is let off the hook.