The announcement today by the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, that his PML-N party had decided to pull out of the coalition government has thrown Pakistani politics into further turmoil but comes as little surprise. Coming just days after Pervaiz Musharraf resigned from the office of President, the latest events deepens Pakistan’s political crisis, as the country faces the prospect of economic failure and the real possibility of disintegration.
The failure to re-instate the Supreme Court judges removed by Musharraf was cited by Sharif as the primary reason for …