Let's agree to DISAGREE. There are powerful hidden forces within the Military siding with PDM and IMF. The game is NOT to completely dislodge IK but to have enough control within Senate and NA so that IK's government DOES NOT FUNCTION properly. THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE GAME. THIS IS THE GAME. This is how you disrupt a country's progress by creating DISFUNCTION.
Why?
The military needs the country to succeed, to progress and for the economy to grow to fund the military.
These are little more than conspiracy theories.
Musharraf gave the PMLN and PPP an NRO because MUSHARRAF had become greedy for power and thought he could hang on and retain it if gave an NRO. Quite frankly, he didn't have much choice with the opposition leadership outside the country, his unpopularity increasing, lawyers protests and the fact that ANY decision made under his rule, including disqualification of PPP & PMLN leadership, was not constitutionally legitimate.
So either Musharraf would have to cling to power for life as an unpopular dictator or hand over power to another dictator (both of which would have been even more disastrous than the PPP & PMLN governments that came after him) or he had to compromise via NRO, and that's what he did.
The fact of the matter is that a dictatorship or martial law is simply not going to work in today's Pakistan, with today's social media access and today's global attitudes.
For better or worse, people need to learn to suck it up, realize that there is a HUGE mess that needs reforms and changes in Pakistan, that it will likely take at least 2 or 3 elections of someone like IK to get those reforms in place and be patient.
