Pervez Musharraf To Resign
Aides to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have told The Sunday Telegraph that he’s considering “stepping down as president of Pakistan rather than waiting to be forced out by his victorious opponents.” He reportedly told aides that he sees no use in carrying on now that the three winners of the elections have decided to form a coalition government “and also pledged to reinstate the country’s chief justice and 60 other judges sacked by Mr Musharraf in November.”
If true, it’s logical but it creates a potential mess. Many people favor democratizing Pakistan – I’m not per definition one of them; I favor a very slow process – but Musharraf is one of the few people who was able to fight Muslim extremists… at least to a degree. With him we know what we have, with his successor, well, we can only hope.
The Belmont Club comments: “That’s democracy ain’t it. Now we’ll see whether there is broad support in Pakistan for the fight against radical Islam. Better that we know it now than after mooted plans to move masses of troops into Afghanistan eventuate, only to discover that the Pakistani logistical rear has gone over to the other side.”
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