A moot on a moot point
There was no need for an all parties’ conference – as this very space was used to elucidate some days ago – in the presence of a freely elected parliament. Such moves only serve to undermine the parliament’s sanctity and provide support for a “national consensus” government, itself an allusion to a dressed up version of military rule.
However, the government, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to go ahead with the idea. If one of the reasons for calling an APC was that a smaller group of people will be more easily conducive to a consensus than a grand session of both houses of parliament, it should be noted that 51 leaders – much larger in number than the tipping point of controllability – have already agreed to attend. If the purpose of the APC was representation, that had already been defeated, once leaders like Imran Khan (who has no member in any chamber of legislation, federal or provincial) were included in the guest list; and a smattering of other small parties as well.
A consensus will be difficult to achieve here because the rightist parties that are currently outside the positive framework of the state, seek currency in a hawkish standoff. Yet, some are suggesting that this would be the very basis of an APC’s appeal. A safety valve of sorts, with cathartic value. Get it out of your public discourse’s system and be done with it; it’s not as if the resolutions of earlier joint parliamentary sessions and APCs were followed up on. As it is, the other side has also started to back off. Voices within the US security setup have started questioning Admiral Mike Mullen’s statements; the old good cop/about-to-retire cop routine. Posturing, all of it.
But this does not mean to imply in any way that things are going to go back to being the way they were. The calculus of Pak-US relations has changed irrevocably. The dropping of pretense, especially by congressmen stateside, is bound to ensure things stay that way.
The smoke-and-mirrors approach of the security establishment in the war against terror has been all but called out. But it is as if the requirements of grace and decency have been met by an immovable object. No APC can fix that.
Can PPP-Zardari government be trusted by ML-N,Imran Khan,Jamat Islami who has a history of breaking pledges and disrespecting resolutions by earlier APC,parliament etc.This government has only exploited those to its survival and destruction of national vital assets as PIA,PSML,Wapda,Railways,economy,monetary structure etc.Only corruption has been its hallmark to the extent of not sparing 'HAJ'.This government has lost its credibility to the extent that no one trusts them for donating money for Sind flood.They did not bother on unveiling conspiracy of MQM breaking Pakistan with USA byZulfikar Mirza On the hand,Zardari showed him the door to appease MQM.Therefore,let ML-N,TIP,JIP not appease this government but ask for national government to replace the present so that nation could trust its government for not enslaving it for foreign master to perpetuate its power and protect hundred of billion dollars stashed abroad.money by bathakhori ,target killing of thousands innocent in Karachi under the coalition of PPP-MQM,ANP.The nation cannot forget the revelations made on 'drones'-'you keep sending drones,we keep protesting or collateral damage is your bother not mine'etc.Who and who can trust such a government.MLN,TIP.JIP must demand it minus the present set up as joint resolution while the nation stands behind its defense forces like a rock against any adventurism by USA,UK,NATO etc.
i love imran khan’ he is vce of ntion
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