He also said that his mother, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, had stopped him from becoming the Amirul Momineen. PML-N leaders have refrained from responding in the hop of preserving opposition unity, but a three-way split has become glaringly obvious. With the JUI-F already having made clear that the two major parties’ indifference to its Long March had made it wary. PPP’s breaking off and leaving the PML-N alone means that instead of pressing against the government while planning in common, the opposition parties will do the PTI’s work for it by taking on one another. At the moment, with the opposition parties unwilling to take on the government by channelizing the public’s feelings about the government, especially its handling of the economy, the government should be more than content not just to have their forbearance.

Source: Pakistan Today February 23, 2020 18:00 UTC