Here To Stay.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) may be trying to hurriedly paper over the cracks in the ruling alliance but the fissures are still showing. More so than the reservations of coalition partners, it is the entrenched infighting between the PTI top leadership that is a matter of concern. Despite numerous, emphatic statements by Prime Minister Imran Khan that his hand-picked Chief Minister for Punjab, Sardar Usman Buzdar, will stay on at the job despite criticism, PTI leaders continue to seek his replacement in clear defiance to their party leader.

The latest attempt has been made by Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chuadhry, who wrote a rather undignified letter to the Prime Minster, complaining of 'poor governance' affecting the party's image. It is inexplicable why Mr Chaudhry would persist with this agenda when Imran Khan has been explicit in his trust for the Punjab Chief Minister; this level of insubordination at such a public forum must surely be embarrassing for the PTI. Sure enough, following the letter, Imran Khan...