PTI’s fixation

On the day when national media reported that Planning Commission of Pakistan succumbed to pressure of new federal finance minister and cleared 22 projects and four concept papers worth Rs 73.578 billion for PM’s Gujar Khan Package etc, the PTI spokesperson was still obsessed with Lahore Metro Bus system inaugurated and operational now for over two weeks. The only change was that while the Punjab government insists that Rs 30 billion was the cost, and PTI previously insisted along with the likes of Raja Riaz that it was worth over Rs 70 billion, but the spokesman has now hiked the cost to over Rs 100 billion. Is this the party that will bring about a change? Perhaps it will serve PTI better if it confines to projection of its own manifesto and decides whether it will oppose the sitting coalition government headed by President Zardari’s PPP, or continue to play role of opposition to official opposition.