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...both events. There are many political uncertainties to come in the next few weeks - the announcement of presidential elections, Supreme Court rulings on Musharraf?s ability to run for another term while maintaining the office of Army Chief, and a contempt of court case against the government for preventing Sharif???s return among them - but whatever happens, the events will be exhaustively covered by a brand-new press corps, an unpredictable new factor in Pakistani political life that neither Sharif nor Bhutto ever faced...
...very serious ramifications which we will watch unfold in the coming days and weeks. It cannot happen that he can sidestep a political contest for presidential elections by cutting a deal with Benazir Bhutto, and sideline Nawaz Sharif and other parties. If Musharraf and his cronies were concerned with Sharif???s return, well, what Musharraf has done will not stop the end game, it will only lead to his removal from power. He should have allowed Pakistan to move on and maybe history would have been kind to him. I think a road map could have been chopped out where...
Kulsoom Nawaz, Sharif???s wife, has said that she will return to Pakistan to lead the fight. Is she not worried about the same treatment as her husband? Oh no, she is a very brave woman. Kulsoom is a very determined woman and she will return with a bang. She is not worried about anything. It is Musharraf who should be worried...
...Nawaz Sharif was Prime Minister in 1997, we were combating a different kind of terrorism at that time. It was what you call sectarian terrorism, and 9/11 had not happened. And we were tackling that with success and dedication. As you know there was a bomb planted at Nawaz Sharif???s house a little out of Lahore and it was very lucky that it exploded half an hour before he got in range. So what I am saying is that Nawaz Sharif has been dealing with terrorism with conviction. Musharraf, to the contrary - after 9/11 he was fighting terrorism...
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