The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) seems bent upon changing the political set up in the country as its senior members have given indications of en masse resignations within two months from the Assemblies. PML-N MNA Khawaja Asif told the media that his party leadership had already decided to adopt the option of collective resignations from parliament in order to compel the government to hold early elections. The PML-N leaders term this move as constitutional and democratic. However, their statements have brought severe criticism from the PPP stalwarts who think this move is unconstitutional and a direct attack on democracy. The PML-N’s announcement of launching an anti-government movement in October, its rally in Lahore, later a grand public meeting of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the recent resignation of PPP MNA Shah Mehmood Qureshi have already heated up the political environment. However, the PML-N’s threat of collective resignation from parliament reflects its desperation to bring down the government before the Senate elections in March 2012 where the PPP anticipates gaining a fair majority. The PML-N’s likely move has created different scenarios, as there has been no such example in Pakistan’s political history. Despite the PML-N’s threat, aimed at depriving the Senate elections of the Punjab Assembly’s Senate electorate, it is obvious that the PPP and the PML-Q would not resign. These moves, if followed through, could nevertheless end up embroiling the Senate elections in uncertainty. Now we have to see whether there is any such provision in the constitution that allows holding the Senate elections in the absence of representation from the largest province and if there is no such constitutional provision, how would the government fill the void created in Punjab by the PML-N’s resignations. In such a scenario, the government thinks it can resort to bye-elections in Punjab. Whether the Election Commission could arrange such bye-elections in the province before the Senate elections is uncertain. In that case, does the constitution envisage a partial or later a two-stage Senate election? The constitutional validity of all these scenarios is yet to be proved and everything is hanging up in the air. The PML-N and PTI want to turf the PPP-led government out before the Senate elections. They are making demands for dissolution of the government and early elections in the country. However, the government wants to complete its term. The contradictions among the political parties are becoming severer with announcements of long marches, sit-ins, rallies and processions against the present government. Despite the opposition parties’ claim to avoid every unconstitutional method during the course of their anti-government activities, only time will tell how they get constitutional support for their activities. *