Another vital issue egan when Yaseen Khan

   

   The decline began when Yaseen Khan Wattoo was appointed as the secretary general of the PPP and Bhutto from his death cell had to ask D M Awan and Yahya Bakhtiyar where his party was. After the judgement of the Lahore High court five judges of the superior judiciary offered to resign against the biased judgement of Maulvi Mushtaq Hussain.

 

    To derive political mileage out of this offer Malik Meraj Khalid was asked to work out a strategy that would benefit not only the PPP but also mobilise public support in its favour. Meraj Khalid promptly went and informed the governor of Punjab about the pending resignations, thus subverting a very noble gesture of the superior judiciary. This betrayal adversely affected the party.

 

    Another vital issue that has haunted the PPP has been its treatment of party cadres in the province of Punjab that command majority seats in the National Assembly when appointments like those of Qasim Zia or Manzoor Wattoo were made to steer the party.

 

    This not only disillusioned a vast majority of the party cadres but also had led to a backlash in other provinces except Sindh where the Bhutto cadres continue to be loyal to the charisma of late Z A Bhutto.

 

    Another episode that needs to be mentioned is that when Benazir Bhutto as prime minister wanted to file a reference against Mian Nawaz Sharif who was then chief minister of Punjab, she had some irrefutable evidence about certain misdeeds committed by him.