LAHORE – Prime minister’s ‘yes’ to Nawaz’s agenda is a temporary relief to the Pakistan People’s Party government but it is a trailer for the horror movie that is to follow.
“This is not stability, it is showoff. We know PPP well enough to know how they will take it from here,” Pakistan Muslim League-Q senior leader Faisal Saleh Hiyat said, adding that PPP was following a fixed agenda. PML-Q President Shujat Hussain was of the opinion that crisis was still lurking and had only paused for a while, but it was inevitable.
Smelling the rat, PTI Chairman Imran Khan said that prime minister’s ‘yes’ was expected because it was preplanned. “We need long-term solutions, not short term quick fixes like these,” he maintained. PML-N senior leader Saddiqul Farooq hoped that positive gesture of prime minister will yield sound results, warning that if the government was not serious, Nawaz Sharif will change tactics.
Jamiat-e-Uleema-e-Islam’s Fazal ur Rehman criticized the prime minister move, saying that PPP only acted when it was put under pressure. Such policy, he said, did show political wisdom. He said that agreeing to PML-N agenda could not avert the crisis for too long.
MQM’s leader Mustafa Aziz Abadi said that the credit went to MQM because it had quit and had returned, PML-N had issued its agenda and finally PPP had to agree to act per aspirations of people. He said that if MQM had not taken the first step, status quo would have remained.
