Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf is finally stepping down.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation Monday after weeks of pressure to relinquish power.
Musharraf told the nation in a televised address that he would step down — nearly nine years after he seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999.
“I don’t want the people of Pakistan to slide deeper and deeper into uncertainty,” Musharraf said.
It’s taken a while but now that Musharrf is stepping down, he will possibly go into exile.
Musharrif is not necessarily the bees knees in a leader, and I’d say he’ll be remembered more for the bad than anything good.
He overthrew an elected government in a military coup. He took Pakistan to the brink of war with India, only to launch a sustained peace process a few years later.
[...]But he brooked no opposition, and weakened important state institutions. And in the end he has fallen victim to hubris, the feeling that he was indispensable and he could do no wrong.
He leaves Pakistan as a more fragile and fractured country than it was when he came to power.
[...]“As far as democracy in Pakistan is concerned,” counters Senator Enver Beg of the Pakistan People’s Party, “historians will not forgive him.”
“He manipulated elections, he hounded his opponents, and he became a dictator. It’s not much of a legacy.”
Like the others who joined in to be allies of Satan they all fall. Satan is in charge of the US White House with Bush.Cheney doing his work. McCain has given his soul to Satan for the chance to continue the Bush/Cheney mission. As always the people will follow McCain and when the US falls the people will again call to God and ask forgiveness.
he’s the best leader we’ve ever had in the history of pakistan.someone whose progressive,broadminded and liberal n always willing to take this country forward n always ready to fight terrorism n extremist forces.we will miss him,he is like the father of this nation for us the youth.God bless him.and i hope these two looters (zardari n nawaz)meet their end soon!
This just shows how the tables can turn in politics. The same Mush had disallowed Sharif from landing in Pakistan in the beginning of the year. He has to leave now, forcibly. All his wealth cannot protect him unless he gets the protection of some government. Now that the US is taking a back step in providing him asylum his other options are not very bright. The ramification of this resignation is fairly severe to the western world, because if during Mush’s regime they couldn’t get Osama and contain other terrorist elements. One has to wait and watch as to how they will achieve that with an amateur coalition.
I am patiently waiting for any Pakistani Government who will have the courage to remove General Zia-ul-Haq’s Martial Law Ordinance of 1984, imposing penalties on members of the ahmadiyya muslim jamaat who simply follow their own religion.
Mrs. Bhutto once tried, General Musharraf once tried, but none succeeded.