Pakistan, Nov. 23 -- Theoretically the government's proposal of introducing electoral reforms is definitely a very positive step and should be welcomed as such. But there is hardly anything academic about political developments, especially in this country, and the timing of the initiative seems suspect to the opposition for somewhat compelling reasons. Why now, for example, so close to the Senate elections and not when the opposition moved a no-confidence motion against the chairman of the upper house. Opposition parties have not forgotten of course, even if everybody else has, that not everybody in their ranks was loyal that day and they've still not been able to find out who precisely because there was no show of hands, only secret ball...