Word: musharraf
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...Musharraf such a problem? Musharraf is a bad loser. Vis-a-vis the people of Pakistan, he is a bad loser. He arrested the judiciary under the fear that the justices would decide against him. [Until then] it was a fair fight. He was represented by the top lawyers in the country. The judiciary had earlier decided against him [and his bid to run for office while remaining Army Chief] unanimously. We were expecting a second judgment, which might only have said he had to remove his uniform. It probably would have bound him to be re-elected...
...hope so. You see, the good thing about the Pakistan army is that it is one man's army. One man has total control over it and that is the Chief of Army Staff. The army does not think except the thoughts of the Chief of Army Staff. Now Musharraf is no longer the chief. But he remains the most unpopular, in fact the most hated man in the country. Stick with him and a lot of that hate will get passed on to the army. And it's not just unpopularity. It's visceral hatred. Because...
What is the American Administration missing? Pervez Musharraf has two faces, one for the Americans and one that is seen by the Pakistanis. The Pakistanis see him presiding over an economy that has just unraveled. The poverty line is inching up. There is enormous unemployment particularly in the past three months because of a shortage of power, and now the flour crisis. They look at the face of a man who is repressive at home, who locks up judges, imposes martial law and amends the constitution on his own with the endorsement of his handpicked judges. You know...
Americans are looking for a solution for the war on terror - does Musharraf fulfill that end? He only exacerbates the war on terror. There is the Newtonian law that every action causes an equal and opposite reaction, I don't know why the Americans seek to pursue this war on terror in the wrong fashion. This war on terror is all about misguided and ill-informed notions of justice. If you lock up the justices then people - particularly people who are armed and have little value of life - will take to alternate means of justice, particularly if they are possessed...
...stumbling from one crisis to the next - militancy, extremism, and the assassination of Bhutto. Are elections going to help? The ballot will not provide all the solutions to the problems Pakistan faces today. It a decoy, and a diversion. It's the turn on the road that Musharraf has taken fervently, but it is not the road to a solution. He is running along this road because he can deceive the West more easily by saying he is going through the process of free and fair elections, and the West, alas, is ready to be deceived by him. The West...