Yet, this unified opposition alliance should hardly be a surprise, given that they have all been pushed to the wall. The PML-N has no stake in the current political dispensation and its hard stance is motivated by its desire to discredit PTI and its backers at any cost. Ironically however, such economic woes of the masses have only been a byline in PDM’s political slogans. The government must realise that the solution to the present political impasse does not lie in more political noise. Instead the government should focus on neutralising political flashpoints such as food inflation and governance vacuum in Punjab, and engage the opposition, or at least some fragments of it, in a political dialogue.

Source: The Express Tribune November 03, 2020 03:33 UTC