"It is a constitutional deviation", a parliamentary source commented to this reporter that the present National Assembly was in 56 days deficit to reach the required 130 days of sitting. This was over the dream that the present assembly would complete its five years' term.
Thus, President Pervez Musharraf proudly boast that the (present) Assembly would complete its five years' term for the first time in the history of the country had also come to an end, as the present Assembly had failed in reaching the desired record.
In fact, the reason for this failure may be laid also at the President Musharraf's doors, in that he failed to summon a session of National Assembly (or, for that matter, of the Senate) after its last session in August. He also kept the nation in a quandary to guess whether he would field himself as candidate in uniform. This went on until a settlement of the matter was sought through public litigation.
Since then the doomsday soothsayers are in business prophesying that 'dissolution of Assembly was still on the cards'. However, if the Assembly has to be dissolved it would not bring credit to President Musharraf, since he is the author of the present dispensation, and dissolution would mean the end of the system, which he is so anxious to save.
'I would hate to see the end of eight years of my good work'; he is on record as saying about recent political developments. The benchmark of the life of Assembly has missed anyway and whether the Assembly is now dissolved (or not) has only a bearing on the Presidential election scheduled for October 6, hard 10 days away.
The nation is now more interested in knowing whether he or the prime minister and the PML-Q secretary-general, or the Opposition parties, who have announced their intention of filing nomination papers, would file nomination papers and/or in the verdict of the Supreme Court expected Thursday (today) morning.
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