"Screws tighten on Musharraf..."..Be VERY afraid of this issue

[SoCalDem]

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NzA1MjY0ODcx

Analysis
Screws tighten on Musharraf amid judge's rise

Published Date: May 12, 2007
By Nick Allen

With the rapid elevation in recent weeks of Pakistan's suspended chief justice to a national symbol of resistance to the government, President Pervez Musharraf's room to manoeuvre in the crisis is diminishing at the same rate.

Just six months before the army general plans to seek re-election by the current parliament, a wide range of forces have joined the lawyers' movement in support of Iftikhar Chaudhry, who Musharraf suspended on March 9 for alleged abuse of office. What began as an outcry by lawyers seeking to defend the independence of the judiciary has evolved into the potent challenge to military rule, with pro-Chaudhry events resounding to battle cry chants of "Go Musharraf go."

Frequent rallies and protests at the judge's suspension are attended by opposition supporters, members of rights groups and women's organizations, and flocks of citizens who grew disillusioned with Musharraf since he came to power in a bloodless coup in 1999.

Against this backdrop, the president's repeated warnings not to politicize "a purely legal and constitutional matter" sound increasingly removed from reality. "The schemes of the lawyers are bound to fail since the public is not with them but with me at this rally. The public is not interested in politics, but in development," Musharraf told a few thousand supporters in southern Pakistan last Friday

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[lligrd]

1. Hate To Say It But Musharraf's Support For The Bush Regime's

fiasco will cost him big time.

[SoCalDem]

3. and Pakistan just happens to be where the Taliban & AlQaeda are haning out

and of course the issues with India are not resolved.. and they are both "noo-Que-lur" nations..

Wouldn't AlQ and/or the Taliban love to get their hands on the controls of government..and those nukes?

[lligrd]

5. Yep, Unfortunately Musharraf Won't Be The Only One

paying for this administration's fiascos.

[JCMach1]

10. More complicated than that... the political alternatives are pretty well-known for corruption

and past criminal acts while in-power.

The only thing that is certain is uncertainty for the moment in Pakistan.


Ultimately, whoever the military backs will win out... same as it ever was.

[IChing]

2. They have nukes and missiles and were involved with 911

they were not a democracy but we supported the military
leader in his coup and gave money to play our
game of war and power, thinking he survive?........Who is "we"?

That an't what Washington said on in his farewell speech on
no entangling alliances.

Oh course Exxon, General Motors and Halliburtion were not around in those times.

I worried about this countries ties as much as Saudi Arabia
but America is tied by corporate power in their foreign policy
not democratic, intellectual or even common sense power
that serves their citizens first and then the world


Yeah, it scares me his government might fall and they
really have the nuke.

Look at Pakistani involvement in 911

[Roland99]

4. Is Wolfowitz's buddy from Citibank, Aziz, still the PM in Pakistan?

fucking neocons have their fingers EVERYWHERE!!

[madrchsod]

6. india has more to worry about this than we do at this time

[w13rd0]

7. With human rights and womens rights organizations...

...being some of the prime movers in the resistence, somehow I don't see Pakistan becoming, if they succeed, an insta-Taliban nation. Though if Musharref, with his Washington/Bush support, has to "crack down" to put down this resistence, it may. Musharref has been more a freind to alQueda than this resistence seems to be.

[Monk06]

8. In other news Musharraf's toupe is seeking political asylum in Miami.

[KharmaTrain]

9. There's Only So Much Use For A Useful Fool

While booooshie didn't know who Musharaf was during the 2000 election campaign, he sure did after 9/11...and Musharaf knew a sucker and a "relationship" was born. Musharaf gave booooshie cover for his "war on terror"...making it appear he was an ally and keeping his dogs on a leash while he doled out billions of dollars to buy their loyalty. It worked good as long as the grease didn't get messed up...as long as the money flowed that all that counted. Who cared if that money worked its way to the tribal areas and probably right into Al Queda coffers...or if Musharaf was hiding the truth about Dr. Ayub Khan and his true WMD program...it was all good.

The question this unrest brings is "has Musharaf used up his usefulness". Will the military...seeing the evenutal US fall in Iraq and "bug-out" of the region try to up the ante on the US...get even more money in a last grab and when he's no longer useful, Musharaf will be gone. Another great member of the "coalition of the willing", about to have his ticket punched.

[KG]

11. i'm surprised Musharraf is still alive. that fact that he is is credible evidence that

while publicly supporting bushco for american media consumption, in his 'hood his real allegiences are elsewhere.

[malaise]

12. This has been coming for some time

Musharraf is history.

[SoCalDem]

13. Will the "next" general be as accommodating to the US?

My guess is no :scared: