Resentment Of The Political Partners.

The post 18th amendment euphoric mood and belief in democracy and further autonomy to provinces, as the right option for the political set-up of the country as the antidote to a weaker federation, have not generated the desired results. The present resentment that is brewing in the federating units and coalition partners of the ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) reveals that PTI is lacking the ability to mitigate the differences and alleviate the sense of marginalisation the provinces and its political partners are feeling.

Gilgit Baltistan (GB) is not happy with the present scheme of things. The people of the region feel betrayed as their demands for provisional provincial status are falling on deaf ears. Sindh is in open conflict with the centre. Sardar Akhtar Mengal of Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) is not happy with the attitude of PTI. Mengal thinks that the incumbent government is not meeting the six-point agenda that both the sides agreed upon. Even the ruling party's coalition partner in Punjab, i.e., Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid (PML-Q) has serious reservations over the way PTI is treating it.

As if the economic challenges are not enough to exhaust the ruling party. Above the gigantic task of putting back the country's economy on the right track, the political stability and the fate of coalitions that the ruling party entered into to form governments in provinces are in turmoil...