The PML-N is faced with a decision, which was inherent in its setting a 45-day deadline for the implementation of its 10-point agenda by the federal government. And that is whether it will continue with the PPP members of the Punjab cabinet, or whether it will expel them and rely on the PML-Q Likeminded, which has taken separate seats in the Punjab Assembly, to provide the majority it needs there to continue in office. The PML-Ns negotiations with the PPP will determine whether or not the PPP ministers remain in the Cabinet, but there are two things which need to be noted. First, the PPP federal government accepted the PML-N agenda to survive, not because it wanted to implement it. Second, the federal government has not got very much interest in the PPP ministers remaining in office, though the PPP parliamentary party wants to remain in office. It remained there right through the PML-Ns withdrawal from the federal government and then the partys attempted dismissal of the Shahbaz government. Because of this, the PPP ministers are more concerned about their impending dismissal than the federal government. The PPP has developed problems with the PML-N agenda because it perceives it as conflicting with the agenda item it has recently adopted, that of saving the President from the consequences of his actions and the Supreme Court decisions. In turn, the PML-N sees its agenda as an organic development of its previous stands, as well as a guide to good governance. The PPP should not see it simply as an attempt on the President, but as a formula for good governance. The PML-N drafted the agenda according to its experience of government and public opinion. The agenda is meant both as a remedy for corruption and misgovernance occurring in the past, and to prevent them in the future. The PML-N has not decided on parting ways with the PPP in haste, with the next committee meeting scheduled to take place on its expiry, with the PML-N ready to keep on the PPP ministers if the party meets its conditions. Apart from whether or not the two parties achieve an agreement, the need to take things right down to the wire is not easily understood. The PPP should not have agreed to the PML(N) agenda if it did not intend to implement it, and the PML(N) must be ready to use its only remaining weapon if the PPP still fails to implement an agenda that did not require so much negotiation if the parties were sincere. The PPP should be ready for the consequences if it continues to play around on the issue, and must not prevent such measures for good governance. Rather, as the government of the day, it should enforce whatever good suggestions it gets, whatever the source, let alone such an important one.