No agreement yet on boycotting elections

The APDM (basically, PML-N) and the ARD (basically, PPP) have been meeting to try and resolve differences between them on the election boycott. The only outstanding issue left? Restoration of the judiciary. Yes, Benazir can't decide how she feels about the ONLY issue that has united all opposition in Pakistan and is responsible for galvanizing a real movement against the military for the first time in the country's history.

Benazir's position is that any restoration of the judiciary must be an issue for the next parliament to decide. We all know how that will go. It will be a forgotten issue along with all the rest of the many promises made by parties before elections.

I fail to understand how anyone thinks that participating in these elections will serve anything other than the interests of the U.S., Musharraf, and Benazir.