Re: Musharraf planning exit: UK paper

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:59:10 -0800 (PST), rst0wxyz
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On Feb 25, 3:26 am, PaPaPeng <PaPaP...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:29:45 -0800 (PST), rst0wxyz

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Musharraf planning exit: UK paper

http://www.dawn.com/2008/02/25/top5.htm

By M. Ziauddin

LONDON, Feb 24: Pervez Musharraf is considering stepping down as
president of Pakistan rather than waiting to be forced out by his
victorious opponents, a report in The Sunday Telegraph said quoting
his close aides.

This Musharraf guy is a lot smarter than anyone gives him credit for.

He made too many enemies with his strong-armed tactics on his
opponents, on the judges, on the Supreme Court, on the country's
lawyers, on almost everybody. There were too many assasination
attempts on his life already. He may not even survive long after he
leaves office.

Every strongman in Pakistan had enemies who wanted to kill them. The
trick is how not to put oneself in the position of getting killed.
Bhutto didn't have that basic survival skill and paid for it.

Without his army connections and strong hand there is no one to
control the military. None of the elected parties have a military
power bloc to rely on. What this means is the military will stand
aside while the Pakistani Parliament self destructs. The political

I don't think you have given the Pakistani political system enough
credits to survive this crisis. I think Nawaz Sharif will emerge and
take the country toward the right direction for the good of the
country.

Not a chance. His first priority is to grab as much as he can for his
tribe and supporters first.

factions will fight amongst themselves and there will be total chaos.
The end result is they will either beg Musharraf to come back or beg
the army take over. Or the army will take over anyway to restore

Musharraf is gone and there is no way he can survive this crisis.

Not hard at all. Retire to England (not that good an idea), to a
Muslim kingdom - Saudi Arabia or a Gulf State or best of all China
where he will be very safe and welcome, and there are large muslim
communities somewhere for his dietary and religious needs.

order as it had done many times in the past. For this I blame the
Americans who pressured Pakistan to democratize and interfered in the
delicate balance of power in forcing Benizir Bhutto into the scene.
Whatever. Should Musharraf step down he removes himself from the
scene and removes himself as the lightning rod for and escapes being
blamed for the mess that will happen to Pakistan anyway.


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