(EDITORIAL) ... Mr G.M. Syed and Khan Abdul Khan will shortly `join hands` with a view to forming `a central Opposition party` in Pakistan. ... The Khan and the Syed are now reported to be `busy in formulating a manifesto of the party which will be issued after the signatures of the two leading lights`.

... An Opposition, say writers of political text books, is of the essence of democracy. ...

It is good for good government that the Government should be subject as well as responsive to wholesome, constructive criticism. When mere constructive criticism fails to produce the responsiveness, the Opposition has the right to resort to destructive methods in the sense of seeking to bring one Government down and instal a better one in its place, having convinced the majoritythatsucha changeisintheinterest ofthe State and the people. ... The Prime Minister of Pakistan himself told the Parliament... .

`I belong to a political party. That political party being in a majority is running the State. Tomorrow some other political party might become a majority. That party will run the State.