With the arrival of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in London on Sunday and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Fazlur Rehman and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti expected to reach on Monday (today), the British capital has become the hub of the latest developments in the Pakistani political scene.
President Asif Ali Zardari is already in London after extending his stay, owing to the last-minute efforts by the government to bring back the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which has recently split with the government.
The MQM has been a hot commodity ever since it waved goodbye to the government, with major political parties jostling to win its support. Shahbaz wasted no time handing out the olive branch to the party, telling reporters at Heathrow Airport on Sunday that all political parties, including the MQM, were invited to be part of a “grand opposition alliance”, a private TV channel reported.
DIALOGUE WITHOUT CONDITIONS: Sharif said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was ready to engage in dialogue with other parties without any conditions. “Pakistan is going through its worst phase and there is a need for all the parties, including the MQM, to put their heads together,” he said. He said it was time to protect the existence of Pakistan, which required practical steps.
Sharif said the purpose of his visit to London was to enhance trade cooperation with the United Kingdom, and denied reports of a possible meeting with MQM chief Altaf Hussain during his visit. “It is all speculation,” he told reporters earlier at the Islamabad airport. Sharif said he would discuss development projects with British officials during his visit, and would also meet British investors and invite them to invest in Pakistan.
Shahbaz is visiting the UK with a delegation that includes Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, Education Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, Finance Minister Kamran Michael and several members of the National Assembly and the Punjab Assembly. Sanaullah was a last-minute inclusion in the entourage keeping in view the chief minister’s political engagements in the UK, possibly with Altaf Hussain, though officially the PML-N has played down the prospects of any such meeting.
PML-N leader Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal will join the chief minister in London. He will return to Pakistan on July 6. Before leaving for the UK, Shahbaz said the Punjab government had changed the concept of foreign visits and provincial authorities undertook as little visits during the last three years as possible.
MUSHARRAF TRYING TO PREVENT ALLIANCE: Separately, former president Pervez Musharaf, who enjoys cordial relations with the leadership of the MQM, is reportedly using his influence to prevent the party from forming any opposition alliance that includes the PML-N.
May be the political leaders’ memories are short but people do remember vividly that when Imran Khan met Mr Nawaz Sharif in London when he was in exile both leaders declared that
MQM was a terrorist organisation. It must be recalled that Imran Khan was visiting London in the aftermath of 12th May carnage perpetrated by MQM thugs. I also remember that all the political parties at that time had united against MQM and had decided not to include MQM into any political alliance.
It is incredible that Nawaz Sharif is backtracking on his solemn promise and in order to settle score with Asif Zardari he is wittingly or unwittingly providing respectability to a party whose politics is based on ethnicity, blackmail, extortion and target killing.
Mr Nawaz Sharif had earned tremendous amount of goodwill and respect on his policy towards establishment. Aziz Zardari and MQM.
I sincerely hope that common sense will prevail and Nawaz Sharif will not pursue a policy of expediency. He must not follow policy of ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend.
ATT:MLN,TIP,JIP,MMA,MQM AND OTHERS.
i FIND THE COMMENTS IN P.M SAHIBB 'BOX.VERY IMPORTANT FOR ATTENTION OF ALL.I WOULD ADD THAT NAWAZ SHARIF SHOULD NOT LIVE IN PAST AND SPEAK THINGS WHICH ARE UNDESIRED AS RECENTLY IN AZAD KASHMIR ELECTIONS OR OTHERWISE.
"Without reconciliation, politics cannot succeed in the country. We will continue our politics of reconciliation,” Galani says it, his guru says it and the minions of PPP-Z ,ANP,MLQ and till few days back MQM.It would be truer to say that without fraud of reconcilation,the ruination, loot and plunder of country, enslavement to IMF,UK,NATO,drones,USA to perpetuate power and protect ill gotten billions of dollars in foreign banks was not possible. That was the success of fraud of reconciliation. succeeded. You deceived,broke,every one to form coalitions of the 'gurge baran, gurge ajals' money, power hungry wolves as some one put it and cursed coalition of munafaks,target qatils,bathakhors,mokaprsts,mufadprasts ruined Pakistan in last 45 months and would continue doing so if 'opposition’ remains divided especially Sharif brothers and Imran Khan due to iron in their necks and souls.MLN ,TIP,JIP,MMA,MQM must all unite on minimum common agenda alongwith all Pakistan loving parties,groups,lawyers,tv anchors,columnists,intellectuals,intellegentia jurists, civil society must get together to save Pakistan before it is too late.
What happens in near future is anyone guess.However,you can predict that fox may change its skin but not habit,leopard would not change its spots,serpent would change its skin but you cannot anything predict about MQM.They change-unchange-rechange-change————————————————————————————- and that goes on.Congenital blackmailers,liars like their think-act alike,PPPZ..
MR Nawaz Sharif must lick his wounds of giving 'mumafti kanda- to not let PPP-Z most corrupt government to derail,hate for submitting Choudries,giving up Long Marach at Gujranawal.He must talk against Musharraf even if talking of flower and roses.He still does not focus on the plight of poor pounded to jelly by the worst ever corrupt,incompetent government on earth.He has lost sense to pick up right subjects for right moments. He must induct new sincere Pakistan to have second opinion to one his rusted brains give him to reinvigorate MLN image.
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