By having a common foe in western capitalism, which they conveniently blame for all of the world's ills, they have developed a marriage of convenience against the odds.
Failing any coup-like interruptions, or Mr Musharraf 's resignation, the government is expected to impeach the president over the next week or so.Meanwhile, by uniting against a common foe, the PPP and PML N) have done much to improve their own flagging relations.
Turn around even the least promising gathering by uniting guests against a common foe: you.
Solo's mission succeeds, but the two spies are then ordered to team up, by their respective chiefs, to foil a common foe.
Polish Jews and Christians were bonded, as never before, by unimaginable suffering at the hands of a common foe.
Balkan countries once divided by war, nationalism and religion have been quietly uniting to confront a common foe: rubbish.
If his impeachment proceeds as promised, General Ashfaq Kayani, Pakistan's army chief, may ask him to revisit that thought: the army, it is said, would consider the impeachment of its former supremo to be undignified.By uniting against a common foe, the PPP and PML (N) have restored an opportunistic friendship of their own.
The fighters have a common foe, but on the ground cooperation is carried out warily.
EVEN when America and Russia have pinpointed a common foe, cold-war rivalry can still rear its ugly head.
"President Vladimir Putin, who has spoken at least twice to George Bush since the US attacks, described the tragedy as a crime against all humanity and stated that the US and Russia "share a common foe, the common foe is international terrorism'".
