Time Seems to Be Running Out for Pakistan's Embattled President
Pressure builds for Pervez Musharraf to resign and leave the country
Musharraf received a setback when more than two dozen of his parliamentary allies ditched him and said they would support the ruling alliance on the impeachment issue.
In the Senate, the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League holds 38 of the 100 seats, on paper enough to block impeachment. But party sources admit that some 18 of its senators have refused to give support to Musharraf.
All four of Pakistan's provincial assemblies have passed resolutions calling on Musharraf to either resign or face impeachment.
In recent months, Washington has actively engaged with General Kayani, who took command of the Pakistani Army last November. High-level U.S. military and intelligence officials have gone to Islamabad to promise military aid and to press for help fighting al Qaeda and Taliban extremists along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There have been concerns in Washington about the political stability of Pakistan. Even as the country faces the Islamic insurgency in its tribal areas, Musharraf's ouster could widen rifts among coalition partners in the current government, with jockeying for office by Sharif and Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zadari, himself controversial because of past, disputed corruption charges.
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Message for General Musharraf
Dear Mr. Musharraf:
You have done best under extreme pressures and conditions. People in Pakistan and around the world know the efforts you have made to fight extremism and terrorism to make their live safer.
You have put Pakistan first by taking actions to avoid all type of domestic and regional political instability:
1-You left the position of Army chief and finished much argued issue of shedding uniform!
2-You provided Pakistani nation with true democratic elections.
3-Again you took a bold step by resigning your position as a president to avoid instability created by the political coalition based on their personal vengeance.
Now, after all you have done political coalition is still debating and criminally neglecting pressing needs of the country but haggling over who will be next president!
Pakistani people and the world needs you for the sake of peace!
Musharraf should ve left much earlier but to say that his exit will resolve the problems Pakistan facing now is not true. This sensless scapegoating would backfire very soon. After Musharraf, people would ask why there problems are still unresolved. The politicians have done no homework, ve no plan in sight to resolve the issues. How long the rehtoric of democracy can go on .....?
Musharaf is the only thing standing between the "democratic politicions" of pakistan and the wealth of pakistan which these people are going to steal and make bigger mansions in the UK or the US while the people of pakistan 5 yrs from now will be kicking themselves of lettin musharaf go coz they will realize that they were blinded in the name of empy promises of religion and so called DEMOCRACY and all in all the idiotic people of pakistan deserve idiots as leader coz u knw what they say that only and idiot can lead other idiots and guess wat musharraf is to good for the people of pakistan.
and i have never been ashamed abt being a pakistani but the day musharaf steps down i will knw that all the people behind that are the one who will destroy pakistan.
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