A senior party member said the hope was that the move would bolster Mr. Zardari's democratic credentials and help restore a strong-Parliament system that had been disrupted under Mr. Musharraf's rule.
But the national parliament's system of single-member constituencies would have to go.
But three months and about 80,000 asylum seekers later, the migration minister told parliament: "The system cannot cope".
Clearly parliament's system of expenses is utterly discredited, but we believe there has been a complete inconsistency of approach to different individual cases.
Robson foresees that problems on site "will need to be solved by committee", He says initial talks have taken place about setting up some kind of "parliament type system, or council to settle disputes".
Parliament's system for disciplining peers is under renewed scrutiny after a peer convicted of abusing expenses received a year's suspension from the House of Lords after being caught making invalid allowance claims for a second time.
Though the Supreme Court has banned convicts from parliament, "the system in India doesn't allow talented people to rise to the top", he says.Voters may be acting rationally in backing crooks when the state functions badly, argues Milan Vaishnav, of the Carnegie Endowment.
The truth is that Afghanistan still lacks a functioning government, Parliament or banking system.
In the U.K., however, Members of Parliament had a system for their expenses that was notoriously unaccountable.
Whether it is parliament, the judicial system, or television and newspapers, there is rarely any attempt to find common ground.
The Scottish Parliament's electoral system means that this approach would maximise the number of pro-independence MSPs in the devolved parliament.
