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Is Pakistan People Party (PPP) Now A party of Establishment?


By Sikander Hayat

Something is happening for the first time in the history of Pakistan and therefore I must remark on this. For the first time ever Pakistan People’s Party has become the party of the establishment and Pakistan Muslim League has become the other.
The role of “other” was eternally played by the PPP but the advent of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) has resulted for the first time in a PPP which is completely and utterly in compliance with the powers of the Pakistani establishment.


If Benazir was alive today, would she have taken the same route, we shall never know that for certain.

In Pakistan today, there are political parties of right of centre such as PML (N), Tehreek-e-Insaaf of Imran Khan, PML (Q) ----there are parties of right such as Jamaat-e-Islamai, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam ( Fazal)-----there are regional chauvinistic parties who do there their electioneering on the base of language, cast, region and most of all hatred of others and conduct us & them politics such as MQM (with Altaf Hussain as its head), and then there are parties on the left of centre of whom PPP was the brightest star.

How long will the PPP’s current cosiness with the establishment will go on, only the time will tell but seeing PML on war footing with the forces of state is a sight to behold. This truly is outbreak of true issue based politics in Pakistan and I hope that this becomes a norm in Pakistani politics than a mere flash in the pan.
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