On the face of it, Pakistan’s polity has never had it so good. The judiciary is genuinely independent. Both president and prime minister are civilian, elected and not beholden to the military. The two main civilian parties — the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) — are united in their desire for the elections to be held as scheduled. But the judiciary and the government are at loggerheads, partly as a consequence of personal animosity between the chief justice and the president. And the military, it is widely believed, has been throwing every possible obstacle in the path of Mr Zardari and the election.
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