Ali Malik's blog

Pardon me for my language but I cannot help it. Chairman of PTI, the wizard of Wisdom said that killing of Maj. General Sanaullah is a conspiracy to sabotage the peace talks with Taliban. Conspiracy?, when the responsibility has been claimed by the Taliban officials.  Who conspired then? You offered Taliban peace talks. If they kill your men, that means they are not interested in peace and are bent on settling old scores. It is commonsense which probably is not taught at Aitchison and Oxford or may be someone was bunking the classes there.  Idiocy and idiosyncrasy cannot go farther than this. And when PTI is busy in this idiocy, Ch. Nisar was talking to Wazir-Mushir of Taliban, maulana Ansar Chief Justice Abbasi, that certain influential forces in the country (read Pakistan Army) are bent on creating misunderstanding between Govt. and Taliban. And the next day, Taliban oblige him by killing three Army men including a Maj. General? So may be another explanation to this ...

Today ends the presidential tenure of President Zardari. He leaves the presidency with a mixed bag of achievements, and with the strongest democratic credentials of any head of state yet. But it is the party in shambles he is returning to that makes the event more intriguing for the future polity. In my last post, I talked about the uphill task that is ahead of PPP if the party wants to revive her fortunes. Yet a very important question for that revival is whether the party should do it with President Zardari or without him? Put simply, is his innings over or not? So here are my two cents. For one, if PPP has to revive her fortunes, presently, no one can do it except President Zardari. He is the only central figure who has the capital (personal legacy and family link to Bhuttos) and the outreach and connection with party's base. More importantly, he seems most politically apt of the lot that PPP possesses. If this is not enough, he understand the policy agenda better than anyone...