Running from Musharraf

President Pervez Musharraf says that he now plans to give up his uniform if he wins the indirect presidential elections scheduled for October 6. But, with his opponents refusing to cut a deal, the US recognizing that it needs a partner with a modicum of legitimacy, and the military getting nervous, his options for holding onto power are shrinking rapidly.

How times change the man. Pakistan’s embattled president, Pervez Musharraf, once declared, “I am not at all a politician. I don’t think I’m cut out for politics.” Eight years after seizing power and exiling his main civilian opponents, the general is moving heaven and earth to hold on to political office.

https://prosyn.org/2xyYkIW