Without a doubt, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has suffered a lot after the martyrdom of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. After the assassination, Asif Zardari’s first public appearances of the widower subdued a strong sentiment by saying ‘Pakistan khappe’ at a time when the PPP jiyalas were unable to come to terms with such a monumental loss.
Zardari is known to be the king of reconciliation. He can easily make a deal. By using such cleverness, he joined hands with the Establishment and ousted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) government from Balochistan. One step further, he also brings top Senate officials from the Establishment.
However, the point is Zardari’s every deal looked promising in terms of “success”. Then why its shares in the political stock market continue to fall? Probably because one’s politics cannot be made successful just by buying and selling. Zardari has damaged the People’s Party by the so-called policy of reconciliation. Now, he is trying to lead those parties, who do not believe in any compromise.
And then you taunt that person, who left his ill mother and went to jail. We don’t know what Zardari will think about such a move, but the eye of political history will always look at it with respect. Nawaz Sharif, who made such bold decisions in very critical moments, will never reconcile like Zardari does.
No matter how much the PPP fulfills its desire to hold rallies on the day of martyrdom of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, it cannot change the fact that the party’s leadership had also reconciled on the murder case of Benazir.
The PPP leadership should not forget that when the PML-N was struggling for democracy, it was active as a facilitator of the establishment. Now if they have an opportunity to wash away its political sins, then why they are reconciling again?
Who benefited and who suffered from the attitude, adopted by the PPP in the last meeting of the PDM? Today, there was no anti-establishment party left in Sindh. All major political parties of Sindh including PPP, GDA, MQM and Pak Sarzamin Party were under the umbrella of the Establishment.
Meanwhile, the political parties of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan remained on one platform with anti-establishment agenda. However, PPP should not forget that the PDM, like any other, is the only democratic platform in this country. Whoever left this platform will nowhere be found. If the PPP wants to restore its political credibility, it should dispel its image of the Establishment’s C-team and will have to behave like a democratic party.
