Dr.Asim Hussain Replace Dr.Ishrat Ul Ebad As Governor Sindh Soon
By guestwriter at 27 November, 2009, 5:31 am
The National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) Chairman, Dr Asim Hussain, may be assigned an important portfolio in Sindh As Governor Sindh 
talk of deteriorating relations between the two allies in the province – the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), The News has learnt.
Dr Hussain on Thursday resigned from the NRB chairmanship on what he describes as redundancy of his department and that he wants to move back to his medical profession. However, sources insisted he may be holding the position of governor in Sindh as he is acceptable to both the MQM and the PPP on account of his non-controversial personality.
“After the MQM’s likely departure from the coalition at the Centre and in Sindh, the president may appoint his confidant to the gubernatorial position,” sources in the Sindh government said.
When approached for comments, Dr Asim Hussain neither confirmed nor denied having been offered the governorship of Sindh. However, Dr Hussain said he was apolitical and had only one party and that was Pakistan.
NRB sources told this correspondent that Dr Hussain had already sent a summary to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, recommending that the NRB either be re-tasked or abolished altogether as it had lost its utility. “No response has, however, been received from the PM Secretariat to my summary so far,” he said. He told reporters earlier that his resignation contained two reasons: redundancy of the NRB and his plan to concentrate on his hospital business.
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blistering attack of President Asif Ali Zardari’s best friend, Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is apparently a diversionary tactic to sidetrack the public focus from the NRO and the involvement of the PPP leaders in it, analysts say.
Another objective of this tirade for which the president set the ball rolling in his speech to a rally in Karachi on Wednesday was to make an attempt to put the critics, political and others, of Zardari and the government on the defensive.
The third apparent aim of the lethal campaign, specifically Dr Mirza’s constant prodding to Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, put in the guise of “requests” to him to take suo moto notice of the NRO cases, is to actually taunt the superior judiciary to come forward and accept the challenge by trying the MQM beneficiaries of the NRO.
Yet another purpose of the harangue against the MQM was to pour scorn on the “establishment” (read the Pakistan Army) by saying that “our ally is playing the role of a tool for the establishment”.
While the suave prime minister is talking about reconciliation and engaged in efforts to build bridges, the president and his men are busy destroying them, and have decided to fuel confrontation in the hope that it will kick up so much dust that the real issues like the misdeed of the NRO beneficiaries and the 17th Amendment would be lost in it.
The timing of Dr Mirza’s onslaught was extremely important: it came with full force when the president and other NRO beneficiaries named by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in its list were under immense public pressure and earning a bad name for having got quashed massive corruption cases. The public demand was to reopen these cases and squeeze the looted public money from their pockets.
Neither Dr Mirza, who is actually running the Sindh government, nor any other government leader poured scorn on the MQM when it ditched the president by urging him to render sacrifices and withdraw the NRO from parliament precisely 24 days ago. They took more than three weeks to chalk out their strategy.
The president’s men now thought it opportune to put the MQM on the mat when the release of the NRO beneficiaries’ list has already done a huge damage to them and painted them black in the public eye. But perhaps they didn’t realise the disastrous consequences of the break-up of the uneasy PPP-MQM alliance.
If finally the MQM withdraws its support from the federal government, giving a matching response to Dr Mirza, the PPP would be running for life to maintain its even simple majority in the National Assembly to remain in the government.
Maybe the rulers have come to the conclusion that since they are falling because of their own follies, it is better to go down with at least the semblance of fighting.
@Suleman,,, where r u? aap k koi comments nahi aa rahay,,, Zulfiqar Mirza ne to MQM ke dhajjiya uraa de dear. jo main kehta tha, wo aaj Zulfiqar mirza ne bhe keh dia, main ne kaha tha na tumhein MR SULEMAN, k MQM k gunaho ka palra bohat bhaari hai, uss k achay kaam un crimes k samnay koi hesiyat nahi rekhtey,, tum log jo sharafat ka perda oorhay bhaithey they na, Zulfiqar mirza ne wo perda 5 mint main uthaa dia tumhara,, ab bolo k Zulfiqar mirza bhe Jamat e Islami ka hai,, lolz…
Jo tum logo ne kia wo koi kese bhool sakta hai bhala, chahay tum log jitney bhe sharafat k roop dhaal lo… asli chehra MQM ka wahi hai..
Agar Zulfiqar Mirza apni aaie per aa gaya to ye Naseer Ullah babar se bhe zayada sakht aur MQM se nafrat kerta hai,, Ab tum log India k VISAY lagwao,, RAW se ja k contact karo aur apnay Clean Shave Terroists ko training dilwao, kiun k ab pakistan police 1990 wali police nahi rahi, ab police main kaafi comandoes forces bhe aa gai hoi hein aur well trained anti terrorist force bhe majood hai.. ab dekhte hein k MQM doobara kab BOORI main bund Naasho wala apna asli dhanda start kerti hai.