Not out of the question! The split inside PDM and seems to be the result of the opposition having reached a dead end The writer served as executive editor of The Express Tribune from 2009 to 2014 The demise of the PDM seems to have been overtaken by events threatening the PTI government itself. The PDM stood split following a public spat between its two leading components — PML-N and PPP — apparently over an insignificant office of the opposition leader in the Senate. On the other hand, the ruling PTI is facing a threatened split seemingly waiting to be set off by an embittered Jahangir Khan Tareen, presumably feeling let down by party chairman Imran Khan who, as prime minister, has allowed cases to be instituted against him on charges of alleged money laundering and manipulating sugar prices, sending them soaring high, out of the common man’s reach. Until a year back, known as party’s money bag or jokingly, the PM’s ATM, Tareen is also credited to have delivered to the party chairman most of the electables enabling him to form governments at the Centre and in Punjab.