Emergency provisions

WITH each passing day, the state of animosity between the PTI, along with the two provincial governments it controls, and the federal government, that is composed of a multiparty coalition, is getting more intense. Both parties are trying all weapons available in the constitutional armoury. Constitutional provisions are, at times, stretched to the limit — and even beyond — but when the courts adjudicate disputes, despite the disapproval of and grumbling by the losing party, the verdict is generally respected and enforced. No-confidence resolutions have been tabled and, in the case of the…