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The American government is in a dilemma over the current political situation in Pakistan. Overtly it has to lend support to President Musharraf but covertly it is indeed troubled over the political row in Pakistan.
Although the American-government proper has not expressed any doubts over President Musharraf’s ability to keep things in power, there has been a constant stream of ‘leaks’ in the so-called American free press expressing doubts over President Musharraf’s ability to have a firm grip over things in Pakistan.
The American apprehensions had banked on Benazir winning the elections and forming an alliance with Musharraf to fight the extremists and terrorists but her untimely demise or rather her assassination played havoc with the American plans.
Despite several firm assurances by Musharraf and the administeration in Pakistan that the country’s nukes were under a very safe command and control regime, the American press, read the American administration, keeps frightening the American people about the possibility of Pakistani nukes falling into the hands of anti-American forces. The reports are spurred on by the political turmoil currently seen in Pakistan.
I would like to point out to the American press, if it does not realize already, that the current political turmoil seen in Pakistan that was initiated by the President’s constitutional action against the former Chief Justice, Iftikhar Choudhry, is taking place only because the ex-general and currently president, Pervez Musharraf, allowed it to take place in the first place!
Nothing but his own democratic nature, could have prevented Prtesident Musharraf from imposing Martial Law as a General of the army and rule the country wirth an iron hand. Had this happened, I am quite sure, no political party would have had the guts to defy him as is evident from the fact that no political party in the country could launch an anti-Musharraf campaign for the last seven years of his rule as head of the country i.e. since 12th October 1999.
But since Musharraf had promised reforms, both economic and political, after taking oover powerin October 1999, he has indeed tolerated many an atrocity on the part of the so-called political party in order to lead the country, not towards sham but real democracy!
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Tags: al qaeda, America, Benazir, chief justice, choudhry, Iftikhar, Musharraf, Politics, President, Terrorists
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1 javedrafiq // Jan 15, 2008 at 9:06 am
The reality in Pakistan is that all that is taking place currently is only due to Musharraf’s own plan otherwise none of the current political turmoil would have been witnressed!
2 oal // Jan 17, 2008 at 1:27 am
Only the junta in Burma, and briefly, has been able (or willing) to kill its Internet pipelines and follow up with measures so Draconian as to make itself the poster state without peer for military dictatorship.
A competitive politics anywhere in the world–just being able to entertain a spectrum of ideas and personalities–should promote betterment throughout the body politics, and it really doesn’t matter who, when, where, or even all that much “why”. However, where social conventions and norms fail to govern those who themselves would compete or who in fact do the governing, any slip through those bounds breaks toward all the familiar negatives–anger, mistrust, suspicion . . . .
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