Arrest of Uzair Baloch, Dr Asim Hussain poses threat to PML-N-PPP ties

However, the pace at which events have been unfolding in recent months has made it difficult for the ruling party chief to keep this broad political consensus intact, sources close to the PM’s Office said.
The Sharif brothers, both Nawaz and Shahbaz, have expressed their concern over the increasing

                                                                                 

confrontation with the PPP-led Sindh government in closed-door meetings and have been heard asking their lieutenants to keep things at a manageable level.

But with Mr Zardari in virtual self-exile since June of last year, Dr Asim Hussain in prison and now the arrest of Uzair Baloch, a Lyari gangster having ties with the PPP, a party office-bearer said, “there are bound to be more sleepless nights for the PML-N leadership”.

It was no secret that the federal government wasn’t happy with the treatment being meted out to Dr Asim Hussain. After meeting the PM alongside Sindh CM Qaim Ali Shah, Sindh Finance Minister Murad Ali Shah has repeatedly said on the record that the federal government also had reservations over Dr Hussain’s arrest. Nobody from the government has so far contradicted Mr Shah’s claim.

Information Minister Senator Pervaiz Rashid, who is the PM’s official spokesperson, wasn’t available for comment.

Apart from the occasional hiccups – such as governor’s rule in Punjab and the Memogate affair – the PML-N had maintained a good working relationship with the PPP during the latter’s stint in power from 2008 to 2013. Political observers have even said there apparently seems to be an unwritten agreement between the two that they will not pull the rug out from under the other’s feet.

In response to a question, the PML-N office-bearer said that following Uzair Baloch’s arrest, more PPP leaders may be booked in the days to come, which would definitely hurt the much-touted political reconciliation between both parties.

Unsurprisingly, many PPP leaders have already started comparing recent actions with the much-maligned politics of the 1990s when both parties repeatedly worked to unseat the other from power. Things are now at a stage where senior PPP leader Senator Aitzaz Ahsan, on Friday, called for the formation of a ‘national government’.

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