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Nawaz-Zardari love will not last long

Musharraf believes
President Pervez Musharraf is confident that the new friendship between Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari will not last long and that they will part soon. The president has met almost all the newly elected PML-Q members of the National Assembly and urged them to remain united on one platform.
Background interviews with many PML-Q legislators who recently met Pervez Musharraf revealed that the president is sure that the issue of restoring the deposed judges will remain a great
source of difference between the PPP and the PML-N.
The president even predicted to one group of the lawmakers that the PPP will have no other option than to make a coalition with the PML-Q and the MQM after a few weeks. On the other side, the PPP leadership has decided that they will .not form the federal government in case the PML-N is not ready to share the "responsibility" by joining the cabinet in the centre. "We can even sit in the opposition
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and that is one of the few reasons we are not in a hurry to announce our candidate for premiership," a top PPPleaderclaimed.
PPP sources have revealed that the president's camp is putting pressure from different quarters to join hands with the PML-Q. A PML-Q leader, Hamid Nasir Chattha, recently met Asif Ali Zardari as a presidential messenger and pleaded with him not to trust Nawaz Sharif. The president is claiming in front of many visitors that Asif Ali Zardari is in contact with him through different channels and will say good-bye to Nawaz Sharif soon.
One National Assembly member from the PML-Q, Riaz Pirzada, dared to disagree with Pervez Musharraf and told him respectfully that "Nawaz and Zardari will not fight with each other till you are sitting in the office of the president."
Pirzada told this scribe that he advised the president that he (president) should play the role of an elder and that he should not encourage those who want to create differences within the political forces because these conspiracies will further destabilise the country. Pirzada also advised the president to get rid of PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussein who has no reason to continue as the head of the party after the humiliating defeat in the recent election.
PML-F MNA Jehangir Khan Tareen also advised the president in a recent meeting to disassociate himself from Chaudhry but the president never gave any serious consideration to the former industries minister of Shaukat Aziz cabinet.
It is learnt that Governor of Punjab Lt Gen (rtd) Khalid Maqbool is also trying his best to become a bridge between the PPP and the PML-Q in the biggest province of Pakistan. He contacted the Punjab unit PPP president. Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a few days ago and offered chief ministership to him. The governor made it clear to Qureshi that he (Qureshi) is better than Shahbaz Sharif, he must become the chief minister of the province and that the PML-Q and some independents will support him unconditionally.
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi politely declined the offer and informed the governor that he respects the mandate the people of Punjab gave to the PML-N.
Some PPP insiders claimed that the president's camp wants the PML-N out of government at every cost. The president camp is not only against the restoration of the deposed judges, they also fear the charter of democracy which the PPP and the PML-N signed two years ago. According to the charter, both the parties agreed to restore the 1973 constitution as it was on 12 October 1999.
It said the appointment of governors, chiefs of the three services would be made by the prime minister, appointment of judges to the higher judiciary would be made on the advice of parliament. National Security Council would be abolished and NAB will also go. Pervez Musharraf is aware that if the charter of democracy is implemented, he will lose all the important powers and only a PPP-PML-Q coalition could save him.
Some Western diplomats are also making a last-ditch effort to force the PPP into making an alliance with pro-Musharraf PML-Q. The PPP leadership is trying to convince US State Department through different lobbyists that Musharraf have lost its credibility and the PPP leadership cannot afford to support him. A trusted friend of late Benazir Bhutto, Mr Hussain Haqqani, recently met US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher and urged him to make a pro-Pakistan policy instead of a pro-Musharraf policy.
It is also learnt that the president's camp is trying to impose a primeministeroftheirlikingonthe PPP but Asif Ali Zardari is not ready to take any dictation in this regard. He was approached for a detailed meeting with President Musharraf but he declined it in a very polite manner. He will meet another PML-N delegation today in a bid to resolve the judges issue.
He said, "I have accepted Nawaz Sharif as my elder brother; I know 1 will have problems being as a younger brother but our relationship is the necessity of time; if we cannot sit in the government, no problem, we will continue this relationship while in the opposition".