The new committee will not workThe PML-Q decision to boycott the new PTI committee to negotiate with it is a strong reaction, though it also indicates that it was not satisfied with the action taken by the previous committee, consisting of Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood and Defence Minister Parvez Khattak. The PML-Q seems unhappy with the fact that that committee made certain commitments, and there is now a new committee, even though the previous one’s commitments have not been fulfilled. Though Federal Railways Minister Sh Rasheed Ahmad predicts that the PML-Q is going nowhere, and though the PML-Q itself has said it wants the PTI governments to complete their five-year term, the problem is that the crisis seems to be ballooning rather than subsiding. The PML-Q is not alone, which indicates that it is not being inordinately prickly, but that the PTI is not handling the relationship properly. The MQM-P is also disaffected, with its only minister having resigned.

Source: Pakistan Today February 02, 2020 19:52 UTC