Just like any suspense thriller movie, the last few weeks were full of uncertainty and happenings, the second round run-off election for chief minister Punjab on July 22 was no doubt a nail-biter, nobody was assessing, predicting, or analyzing what happened on the day. Opposition candidate Chaudhary Pervez Elahi was leading the number game over his rival Hamza Shehbaz of PMLN. It was Zardari who turned the table at the last minute of the game with a big political surprise. Former president of Pakistan and head of Pakistan people’s party parliamentarians is the man who pulled the carpet under the feet of his political opponents when nobody was expecting, but expectedly as the matter went to the apex court of Pakistan, everything happened on that day was declared null and void. What transpired on that election day created a big rift in PMLQ. However, it has its background.
Political tug of war, for how long?
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