Guarantors
of last year’s deal between the Presidency
and the PPP start reaching Islamabad
By Mohammad Muniruddin
Karachi: According to well informed sources,
it has been learnt that a select group of well
placed influential people who mediated the deal
between the Presidency and Shaheed Mohtarma
Benazir Bhutto last year have arrived in Pakistan
to remind the powers that be of the commitments
made to them in regards to the deal which they
brokered. In this regard, the ex British envoy
to Islamabad , Mr. Lyallpur has arrived in Pakistan
to remind all the players in the present equation
of the guarantees that were made by the respective
sides. Besides the high profile British diplomat
who at one time brought the President and Shaheed
Motharma together, two well placed individuals
from the US and one extremely influential Saudi
power broker have also reached Pakistan to bring
an end to the impeachment proceedings being
carried out against President Musharraf. The
sources said that these individuals have reached
Islamabad to remind everyone especially in the
PPP corridors that it was them that brokered
the peace between the PPP and the Presidency
and therefore they are the guarantors of the
deal and thus it is their creditability which
is at stake if the impeachment proceedings are
carried out in violation of the secret deal
which is said to have occurred last year. Already
the presence of these individuals in the country
has brought about some changes and in this regard
the great urgency that was being shown to get
rid of the President seems to have slowed down
just a bit to allow cooler heads to prevail
within all the sides concerned.