Politics in Pakistan is never dull, even if it is sometimes predictable. The long-awaited split in the Pakistan Muslim League of the deposed prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, finally occurred on November 20th. A rebellious faction seized the party's secretariat in Islamabad and refused to let pro-Sharif members of the party's Central Working Committee deliberate on their one-point agenda: how to join hands with Mr Sharif's rival, Benazir Bhutto, in order to get rid of Pakistan's dictator for the past 13 months, General Pervez Musharraf.
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