Pakistan, Oct. 24 -- If the multi-party opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), has been able to rise from the dead and grab the initiative once again, it is only because of mismanagement of so many things on the part of the government. It wasn't long ago that senior ministers and the PM's many aides were firing off tweets, claiming that the last nail in PDM's coffin had been hammered in; and it was a self-inflicted wound because of all the differences between its two principal parties - PML-N and PPP. And now it's no surprise that the alliance has been able to take to the streets once again because it is so easy to rally people around the failing economy; especially unbearable inflation.

It doesn't help the government t...