Let me rephrase it; that list of parliamentarians shouldn’t be construed as Establishment’s men; they are on their own. Only reason they don’t want to be at forefront is that they have enough strength to win their constituencies on their own. Most of these have personal/family vote bank in excess of 100-000 to 150,000 out of which polled votes are in high 80-90k and add another 10-15 of any party’s vote and they are gold. They remain low lying throughout 5 years yet get their work done - appealing to their local constituents.
That was the reality why Nawaz gave tickets to 150 plus Ex-PMLQ members (both houses) even after saying that he won’t lick his own spit. Anyways.... back to the point - DQ wasn’t engineered by any institution it was done on merit as there was no confluence of Army & Judiciary that’s why weaker judgment; had there been a partnership of these two Nawaz would have been ripped apart into pieces.
If what I am aware of or am thinking what will happen then Sharif’s will be done forever. There’s no way Maryam can get the role without splitting the party - that is if she remains unscathed after the cases. Suppose she gets away; Imagine Maryam leading a group of party without Shahbaz & Hamza’s group in Punjab and without Nisar at Federal level.
I do not think Abbasi can stick nor 80% of Abbasi’s cabinet will ever report to Maryam - now she has too much baggage of Anti Army & Judiciary - she wasn’t polarizing personality in 2014-2015 now she has been cornered like Altaf Hussain and she is pretty much drum beaters leader now.
Nawaz himself is not keeping well; I think I mentioned that even if panama didn’t happen in 2016, Nawaz had made up his mind to launch Maryam - after her failed launch as Chief of Youth Program
and for 2018 Nawaz had made all plans to see her daughter to counter PTI’s sloganeering of youth party. Khair long story short; only Sharif that will be left in the country unblemished will be my friend; since he is not into politics and has always remained removed from this filth - well until now