Guest Post by temporal who blogs at Baithak
The negotiations between Musharraf and Zardari-Sharif Unnatural coalition hinges over one major condition – Musharraf insists on complete indemnification over all his actions.
Obsessed, hateful and driven Nawaz has dug his heels. Zardari, reports indicate is willing to be more flexible.
US, UK and Saudi-Americans have also jumped into the fray.
The bottom line? Kayani and the institution that he represents. Their insistence that Musharraf be not touched is understandable. Any successful effort to impeach and later charge Musharraf with misdeed would inevitably drag two offices – the President and the Army Chief.
The results would show who is more powerful the elected civilians or the Army. All other players are incidental. This is the bottom line.
This is also ominous. If Musharraf sails into the sunset, and if conditions continue to be mismanaged and deteriorate guess who would step in … once again?
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5 responses to “Bottom Line”
I would like to take a small exception to the statement “the results would show who is more powerful the elected civilians or the Army. All other players are incidental. This is the bottom line.”
For better AND for worse, Nawaz is not the end-all and be-all of “elected civilians”. The PPP, the MQM, and others also carry at least as much of a mandate as the PML-N.
The bottom line is that whenever there is a fight between power and politics always politics on the loser end and politcis can only be succeed when power wants politics to win.
In current scenerio due to all your respect Power is with Mr. Musharaf and power wants the safe and graceful exit of Mr. Musharaf, therefore one should not be living in fools paradise as all our exsiting politicions (including Jamat and Imran Khan)politics on the shoulder of the power and here power means Army as well as America.
It’s pretty much clear now that Mr.Pervez Mush raff is pretty much a ‘lame-duck’. Asif Zardari has played the game of chess, well and has left no other option for the President (King) but to ‘with-draw’. The news coming from the presidency is confusing where the Attorney General of Pakistan Malik Abdul Qayum gave a statement right after meeting the president; ‘that instead of asking about resigning; President was in a mood of challenging the whole impeachment process in the Supreme Court’. Tells a lot about the state of affairs in Pakistan.
The saviors of the tomb and corrupt, the Saudis has stepped in between (presumably, at Mush raff(s) will) where there intelligence chief has had meetings with the concerned parties for Mushraff(s) safe exit. Could Mushraff be Pakistan(s) Edi Amen?
The winners in this game will be Nawaz Sharif since he will accomplish his dream of ‘the last punch’ cum ‘revenge’ against Mushraff apart from political scoring from the Presidents departure while Asif Zardari will be happy that he will be in ‘full-control’ of the nation – guaranteeing his governments five years tenure.
There(s) another twist to all of a sudden ‘change of heart’ of Asif Zardari of ‘speeding up’ allegations and impeachment process against the President; my sources confirm that
Asif Zardari & Nawaz Sharif has come to an agreement that ‘if Mushraff goes – Nawaz Sharif will go soft on judges issue and especially on the minus One formula’.
The biggest looser(s) will eventually be the people of Pakistan; fooled again with false promises (remembering the Charter of Democracy and Muree Accord) and hopes that post-Mushraff Pakistan will change for the better. The lawyers will also suffer as they will have to fight a new battle from scratch but this time against an evil and more deadly combo of: Democrats.
We should really be looking at the ‘intensions’ (niat) of Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif who are the new self-confessed champions Democracy, Human Rights, Transparency and Pakistaniat. One wants ‘full domination’ of Pakistan and the other(s) politics is of revenge oriented but then they are politicians and that’s what they do. Personal Objectives and nothing more!
A bit of martial law please.
iFaqeer:
point taken:)
AKC:
while wily Goldy makes his moves against Brothers Sharipov and Mushy…winning and perhaps bringing Pakistan closer to Quaid’s ideals (the army and bureaucrats under firm civilian control) he forgets one fact: the Pak Army is not a chess opponent – it owns the board, the pieces, the mat and the ground beneath his feet – for now;)