The coalition government in the Centre seems at the verge of collapse in the aftermath of the unilateral decisions taken by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
The major decisions of the PPP including not to restore the sacked judges as per Murree Declaration, appointment of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, delaying of the President's impeachment, anti-Nawaz decision by the Lahore High Court and the recent operation launched against the militants in the tribal areas are the key factors, which have annoyed the PML-N and might lead to the disintegration of the multi-party coalition.
The PML-N on Monday expressed its serious reservations over the government move to launch offensive against the militants in the tribal areas, opining that it would further loom the ongoing political, economic and security crisis in the country.
PML-N senior leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said at a press conference that the decision took without taking the PML-N into confidence. PML-N Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif also expressed similar concerns while talking to US Assistant Secretary of States Richard Boucher in Lahore during a meeting on Tuesday, who is presently on his visit to Pakistan.
Nawaz Sharif suggested that the policy of dialogue and negotiation be adopted, as use of forces would aggravate the situation in tribal areas. Meanwhile, sources in the PML-N said that the party would take a major decision after PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari's return, who is presently abroad on a private visit. The sources said that the PML-N would soon evolve a future line of action after holding a marathon meeting with the PPP within couple of days.
The PML-N, he said, rendered a number of sacrifices and also made compromises even at the cost of its policy and commitment but the PPP did not respond in a similar way. The party swallowed even the bitter pill that its ministers had taken oath from President Pervez Musharraf whom the party did not accept as a legitimate president.
He also mentioned that the PPP had succumbed to the pressure of the MQM and removed Shoiab Suddle from the Sindh IG slot, but did turn deaf ear towards the reservations and complaints about the Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer.
"We have failed to understand that what kind of politics, PPP Co-chairman is doing with its major coalition partner (PML-N) despite the fact that there is no much difference of strength in the Parliament between the two major political parties."
"If such polices continue I don't think that the coalition will remain intact for a long time and we have to draw our own line of action," he remarked. It is the main reason the Parliament has failed so far to deliver as per the aspirations of the people, he concluded.