Lemmings periodically self destruct through mass suicide. This phenomenon has defied explanation and remains a case of irrational behavior in the animal kingdom. More difficult to understand is similar behavior among humans. Take the Pakistan Peoples Party. It's the only truly federal party and it made a good national showing in the elections. Much of the credit must go to its late charismatic leader Benazir Bhutto but her widower Zardari has soldiered on. He took over the leadership of the party and forged a coalition government that endures. He raised a slogan for Pakistan as the home province of Bhutto, Sind, sizzled on the brink of violence. He has kept the opposition at bay. He did not go on a witch hunt. Now inexplicably he has his finger on the self destruct button.
Instead of using his skill to ram the National Reconciliation Ordinance through Parliament the Peoples Party dithered and eventually the Ordinance lapsed for want of Parliamentary ratification. The Supreme Court declared it null and void as expected. Now the Party is screaming discrimination threatening to tear the country apart. Violence has been threatened in Sind in the most aggressive manner and one stalwart of the Party in Punjab has given similar indications. Understandably the Party has rallied around the President but open defiance of the judicial process and raising the specter of provincial violence does not befit a Party that is federal and has nation wide roots and support. It is a recipe for eventual self destruction.
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