The two major partners in the ruling coalition are at loggerheads with each other. The diatribe is making its presence felt on the floor of the elected houses and also in the body-politic, sending signals of further instability in an already fragile hybrid system in vogue. The PPP and the PML-N, it seems, are galvanising their instincts for an electoral tradeoff, after years of an unnatural alliance merely to keep the PTI out of the fray.

The origin of the dispute involves issues ranging from flood........

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