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Twice elected and twice disgraced, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned from self-imposed exile and was in cahoots with Musharraf in hopes of again becoming Prime Minister. Musharraf even agreed to drop corruption charges against her. But the plan has backfired, and Bhutto is now deriding Musharraf and proclaiming slogans of democracy. The opportunistic Benazir Bhutto doesn't care one hoot about Pakistan. She is only hungry for power...
...Musharraf shut down news channels on the pretext that they incite Pakistanis against the government. The corrupt Benazir Bhutto could become Prime Minister, having been pardoned through a controversial ordinance for stealing $1.5 billion from the Pakistani public. The judges who were going to strike down the ordinance were removed and put under house arrest after being manhandled by the local police. Militancy, suicide attacks and other forms of terrorism have increased greatly under Musharraf's rule. I am reminded of when the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein while he was brutally killing his own people. Will Pakistan end up like...
...recent weeks, Musharraf has restored some of the rights he snatched away when he declared what amounted to martial law on Nov. 3. He has even permitted former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif to return from exile in order to contest elections, which even if held under emergency rule, have some semblance of being free and fair...
...next few days, ahead of being sworn in for a second term as President later this week. He also says the state of emergency will soon be lifted. Parliamentary elections are scheduled for early January but opposition parties, including Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, have not yet decided whether they will participate...
...political equation is becoming increasingly complex. Musharraf is currently visiting Saudi Arabia, which has long-standing close ties with Islamabad - and is also the exile home of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whom Musharraf overthrew in 1999. While Benazir Bhutto has returned to demanding that Musharraf resign following the breakdown of the political marriage between them brokered by the U.S., Musharraf may be trying to bring Nawaz Sharif over to his side. A Musharraf pact with Sharif would be even stranger than his short-lived alliance with Bhutto. But regardless of the outcome of the political maneuvering, New Delhi will...