tokens: Over a month ago , the experienced Iraqi politician Adnan Pachachi doubted Prime Minister Nouri Al - Malaki 's ability to carry out his promise to disband the armed militias and disarm them and said that Al - Maliki was in one corner and his government ministers , whether Shiites from the Al - Sadr movement and Al - Hakim 's group or Sunnis , were in another corner in terms of their allegiance to parties that have armed militias .