A 'prestige point' for the ruling party.

Byline: NUSRAT JAVEED

I seriously believe that the opposition move to get the Senate Chairman, Sadiq Sanjrani, removed through a motion of no confidence is a worthless diversion in time wasting.

Allow me to project the given political scene with a broad brush to prove the point.

Nawaz Sharif, the lifelong 'Quaid' of the main Opposition Party, the PML-N, is spending time in jail after being sentenced by the Accountability Court these days.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan had already disqualified him for holding any public office.

The NAB had nabbed Asif Ali Zardari, a former President and Co-Chairman of the PPP. He is accused of laundering billions through a plethora of 'fake' bank accounts.

Shahid Khakan Abbasi, the former prime minister, is also in NAB's custody and answering a long list of questions to justify his decision of approving a huge contract related to importing gas from Qatar.

Shehbaz Sharif, the PML-N President and the opposition leader in the National Assembly, is out on bail. But his sons are now accused of committing multiple acts of corruption.

Hamza, the eldest, remains in judicial custody. Lest you forget, he also happens to be the opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly.

One can go on nonstop to underline the reality that almost each front-ranking leader of both the opposition parties seems helplessly stuck in proving his or her honesty and innocence to courts or various corruption-busting outfits.

Most of the opposition legislators also look virtually paralyzed with the fear of being 'the next.'

I simply fail to imagine as to how the opposition can furnish any solace for its ranks and file by merely removing Sadiq Sanjrani.

Even with him being there, the number-strong opposition, comprising multiple parties, had clearly established that the Imran government couldn't legislate by disregarding its majority in the Senate.

With its attempt to remove Sanjrani, the opposition had rather transmitted the feeling that it desperately needs some brownie points to feel good in gloomy times, by just 'exposing' the vulnerable sides of the Imran government.

Doing this, some very experienced leaders of the opposition parties, miserably failed to correctly gauge the mood prevailing among the ruling party and its allies.

Prime Minister Imran Khan, keeps telling the world that lead stars of the governments preceding his were not 'politicians but hardened criminals.' During their turns in power, they ruthlessly indulged in 'loot and...