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...stable country with a moderate political party in power. There were no suicide bombings, no abductions by extremists, and people were free to move about without security personnel. By 2007, Pakistan was among the world’s most dangerous places. This transformation is the result of Musharraf??€™s long, incompetent rule.There are many other pieces of evidence to support that Musharraf is not committed to fighting terrorism now, or if he ever was. Musharraf??€™s own speeches and words, such as, “[I am] not going around trying to locate Osama bin Laden...
...Bhutto was, at most, the best of several mediocre alternatives. Her assassination should not cast her political career in a rosier light. Yet the past week has seen the continual distortion of Bhutto’s life by politicians and media desperate to make her death fit their agenda. Musharraf??€™s government has sought to deflect criticism by denying an autopsy and investigation and blaming her recklessness and radical militants for her death. In America, presidential candidates have used the assassination as a platform to talk up their experience on foreign policy and national security issues. Even...
...this most recent one it has broken into the Supreme Court and ransacked media offices. Its targets today are not corrupt politicians but rather the civil society of Pakistan. This civil society had long remained passive, but in recent times became more and more critical of Pervez Musharraf??€™s army-backed rule. The electronic media and the judiciary were refusing to act as his puppets, and his approval ratings were at an all time low. The state of emergency that Musharraf declared on Nov. 3 was thus aimed to preempt civil society from wresting power from...
...welcoming Chief Justice Chaudhry, who has risked his own well-being to protect the rule of democracy and law in Pakistan, to Cambridge in the near future. In recent months, President Musharraf and his gang have repeatedly taken steps to undermine the democratic process in the country. Musharraf??€™s supposed aims to bring stability to the country are only in name. In appointing a Prime Minister yesterday, for example, Musharraf called on Mohammedmian Soomro, his close ally and member of his own ruling League-Q party. This is hardly the action of a man with the nation?...
...Pakistani Supreme Court was slated to soon rule on the constitutionality of Musharraf??€™s presidency, but the institution of emergency law and the subsequent firing of the majority of the supreme court has held that decision...