Zardari courting Chaudhries - Rauf Klasra
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani appears to be the first victim of President Asif Ali Zardari’s extreme anger and vengeance as the Chaudhrys of Gujrat and the president are believed to have agreed to form an alliance in the Centre and deprive Gilani of premiership.
This new strategy envisages that the PML-Q forward bloc in the Punjab would be legally stopped by the president by issuing an ordinance, and, once the Punjab was under control, the PPP and the Q League will go ahead with their coalition in Islamabad.
The framework of this strategy was finalised in secret meetings between President Zardari and Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Ch Pervaiz Elahi and Moonis Elahi. These meetings have, however, been denied by the presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar.
Top sources have claimed that Chaudhrys told Zardari to extend cooperation not only in the Punjab but in the Centre as well. The federal government has started considering some sort of legislation to deal with the issue of the 34-member forward bloc of the PML-Q. Talking to The News, PML-Q Senator Tariq Azeem, also information secretary of the party, said that if both the PPP and the PML-Q managed to form a government in the Punjab, then definitely it would have a direct impact on Islamabad too where these two parties could form an alliance. However, he did not give further details of this alliance.
This new strategy envisages that the PML-Q forward bloc in the Punjab would be legally stopped by the president by issuing an ordinance, and, once the Punjab was under control, the PPP and the Q League will go ahead with their coalition in Islamabad.
The framework of this strategy was finalised in secret meetings between President Zardari and Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Ch Pervaiz Elahi and Moonis Elahi. These meetings have, however, been denied by the presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar.
Top sources have claimed that Chaudhrys told Zardari to extend cooperation not only in the Punjab but in the Centre as well. The federal government has started considering some sort of legislation to deal with the issue of the 34-member forward bloc of the PML-Q. Talking to The News, PML-Q Senator Tariq Azeem, also information secretary of the party, said that if both the PPP and the PML-Q managed to form a government in the Punjab, then definitely it would have a direct impact on Islamabad too where these two parties could form an alliance. However, he did not give further details of this alliance.
posted by temporal at 3/19/2009
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