While the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has pandora bracelets started playing its chosen role as opposition in parliament and Sindh provincial assembly, the leadership of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) appears to be reluctant to recognise the ground reality.
More than three weeks ago all 14 federal and provincial ministers of MQM tendered their resignations when the party announced withdrawal from the PPP-led coalition government after remaining part of it for over three years.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told reporters here yesterday that the MQM resignations had not been accepted.
"Their status as ministers remains intact," the pandora leather bracelet prime minister said, when asked whether and when the government would act to end the prevailing ambiguity.
He did not go into the reasons for keeping the resignations pending, but ruling party figures have repeatedly expressed the hope that efforts to persuade the MQM to rejoin the government would succeed.
Indication
An indication came when Dr Ishrat ul Ebad returned to his post of governor of Sindh on the directive of the London-based MQM chief Altaf Hussain following a phone conversation between him and President Asif Ali Zardari.
The party said its governor had resumed his functions in the interest of peace and stability in Sindh province, particularly in Karachi. The death pandora leather bracelet toll in latest incidents in Karachi rose to 16 and dozens injured in two days as three more people were reportedly shot dead yesterday.
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