FOR many a politician in Pakistan politics is a profession of vested interest rather than a means to a social service. The most recent example of this typical mindset is the rapprochement between the PML-N and the PML-Likeminded (May 13).

The two political parties have not only continued to differ pointedly for two decades in their political outlook but they also never got tired of accusing each other of being hugely corrupt during the tenure of their respective governments in the past.

In reality, prominent persons of the two parties were arrested by NAB and they served sentences for different financial crimes.

In fact, few political parties in this country can claim to have a clean hand when it comes to dealing with one another.

In the current political situation it is more so while referring to the politics of PML-N.

It has become abundantly clear to the nation that whenever it suits them, these political leaders sink their differences in the name of unity for their country.

Whereas, by virtue of a vibrant media, the people are now well aware of the political realities in this part of the world. As a matter of fact, the PML-N and the PML-Likeminded have joined hands against Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf.

The PML-N is seeing Imran Khan as a potential threat in the next election.

In short, Nawaz Sharif would not hesitate to embrace his sworn political adversary and thus try to prevent the PTI from putting a spoke in the wheels of the PML-N in the next election.

Still, the question remains that how long the Pakistan Muslim League (N) will disregard the basic principle of selfless politics that its words must match with the action on the ground?

RAFAT MAHMOOD ANSARI Islamabad