Pakistan: Wishing President Musharraf a speedy exit
Aug 12th 2008 | ISLAMABAD
Mr Musharraf’s best hope of survival would be to use his the powers he awarded himself to dissolve parliament. He has made similar interventions before. Having seized power in a 1999 coup, he clung to it last November by declaring a state of emergency to safeguard his presidential re-election. But these acts had the support of the army; and it is unlikely that Mr Musharraf would have this now. America, a staunch erstwhile ally of the unpopular president, is also reluctant to stick up for him. When the leaders of the PPP and PML(N), Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif, declared their intention to impeach Mr Musharraf on August 7th, a State Department spokesmen called it an “internal matter”.
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