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It would be an understatement to say that Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former president and army chief, is experiencing a fall from grace worse than that of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former president and army chief. Especially given that while Egyptian authorities are now scheming to set Mubarak free, Pakistani authorities are scheming to imprison Musharraf for… Read more.
When President Zardari’s government forces and Nawaz Sharif’s opposition protesters clashed on the streets of Pakistan over the weekend it confirmed this prediction I first made over a year ago: Having rid the country of bogeyman Musharraf (who at least enforced some degree of stability), Zardari and Sharif now seem determined to plunge Pakistan into sectarian political warfare… Read more.
History repeated itself in Pakistan yesterday as thousands of lawyers from cities all over the country mounted another “Long March,” which they hope will end on Monday with a sit-in at the parliament in the capital, Islamabad. And, like last year, the clarion call this year is for the president to reinstate all judges sacked… Read more.
There’s no guarantee the PPP [headed by the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zadari] and PML-N [headed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif] will be able to put aside long-standing hostilities long enough to mount a joint political coup d’état…. Nothing justifies Musharraf’s dictatorship quite like the chaos among the country’s opposition… Read more.
