Zardari and Shahbaz fail to resolve differences By Syed Irfan Raza
President Asif Ali Zardari and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif met here on Friday in what appeared to be an effort to bridge the trust deficit between the PPP and PML-N on various national issues. However, the meeting is reported to have failed to yield a positive result.
Significant changes in the political landscape are likely during the next two months, especially in March when Senate election and the lawyers’ long march are due....Mr Sharif stuck to his party’s stance that it would continue to support the lawyers’ movement for reinstatement of the deposed judges and repeal of the 17th Amendment.
When the issue of disqualification of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif came up, the PML-N leader said he was ready to sacrifice the chief minister’s post, but his party would not give up its support for the lawyers’ movement, the sources said.
The PML-N leader urged the president to honour the Charter of Democracy (CoD) whose first clause was about repealing the 17th Amendment and disarming the president of the power to dismiss a government under Article 58(2)b....Farhatullah Babar termed the meeting a ‘routine get-together’. “As there was no agenda of the meeting, how can it be declared a success or failure?”
Meanwhile, the PPP has strengthened its ties with the MQM. An MQM leader said the PPP had accepted all major demands of his party.
The party is likely to be given federal ministries of ports and shipping, communications, housing and works and petroleum.
Significant changes in the political landscape are likely during the next two months, especially in March when Senate election and the lawyers’ long march are due....Mr Sharif stuck to his party’s stance that it would continue to support the lawyers’ movement for reinstatement of the deposed judges and repeal of the 17th Amendment.
When the issue of disqualification of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif came up, the PML-N leader said he was ready to sacrifice the chief minister’s post, but his party would not give up its support for the lawyers’ movement, the sources said.
The PML-N leader urged the president to honour the Charter of Democracy (CoD) whose first clause was about repealing the 17th Amendment and disarming the president of the power to dismiss a government under Article 58(2)b....Farhatullah Babar termed the meeting a ‘routine get-together’. “As there was no agenda of the meeting, how can it be declared a success or failure?”
Meanwhile, the PPP has strengthened its ties with the MQM. An MQM leader said the PPP had accepted all major demands of his party.
The party is likely to be given federal ministries of ports and shipping, communications, housing and works and petroleum.
posted by temporal at 1/24/2009
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