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Trust me, this death sentence is not nearly as grave or unforeseen as it seems. But first things first: A Pakistani special court sentenced former military dictator and president Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia, ending a six-year long high treason case against him and delivering a historic verdict against the country’s powerful army. …… Read more.
I have found on occasion that merely listing the titles of a few commentaries speaks volumes about a topic. As it happens, I have written many commentaries on the fractious, even murderous, politics of Pakistan. This seems a good occasion to merely list the titles of a few of them: “Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf: A… Read more.
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.
Here is the friendly advice I gave Pervez Musharraf when it was clear his days as the benign dictator of Pakistan were numbered: It would behoove Musharraf to follow the trail so many of his predecessors have blazed into exile. And, frankly, given the numerous assassination attempts on his life, it would be understandable if… Read more.
Politicians and pundits – in Pakistan and the United States – have been waxing indignant to the point of belligerence over the past week about the potential fallout from the spectacular way U.S. Special Forces willfully violated Pakistan’s sovereignty to get Osama bin Laden. For example, on the one hand, we had Pakistani Prime Minister… Read more.
On Saturday Pakistan issued an arrest warrant for former President Pervez Musharraf: A joint investigation team in its report to the court has found Musharraf guilty of being involved in the conspiracy and abetting to kill Benazir Bhutto. (Zulfikar Ali Chaudhry, the lead prosecutor, Associated Press, February 12, 2011) But, like anyone who knows anything about… Read more.
The writing was on the wall for Musharraf even before the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), once headed by the assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto but now headed by her widower, Asif Zardari, and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), headed by Sharif, defeated his “king’s party” (PML-Q) resoundingly in parliamentary elections last February…. [Pressure mounts… Read more.
