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April 6, 2021
ISLAMABAD: As the Senate met on Monday for its first regular session of a new parliamentary year, Leader of Opposition Yusuf Raza Gilani vowed to carry with him the entire opposition and also become the voice of the government, whereas the PML-N pledged to play its independent role as a real opposition.
The new session was marred by loud charges and counter-charges from some senators of the opposition benches and those in the treasury, who had apparently supported Gilani to become the opposition leader. The opposition was divided, mainly into two groups and hence the PDM internal rift reached the Senate. There was a strong demand from the PML-N for investigation into the installation of spy cameras during the Senate elections of chairman and deputy chairman.
In this file photo, Prime Minister Imran Khan chairs a meeting of the federal cabinet. PPI/File
Reshuffling the cabinet nowadays is considered a quasi-scientific endeavour. Part merit, part loyalty, part quota, part intuition and part stakeholder acceptability all these ingredients are mixed in a bowl, sprinkled with hope, garnished with expectancy and served with a side of expected delivery; voila!
And yet, a painstaking agony of pulls and pushes goes into the making of a reshuffle. Which is why there is invariably a gap between the time such rumours first surface and the final announcement. This is what is swirling around in the Islamabad air as the dreaded month of March ides and all dissolves into a chirpy April spring.
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