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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: Nandu who wrote (12331)6/24/2002 2:43:23 PM
From: JPR  Read Replies (1) of 12475
 
Musharaff serves four masters
Musharraf: washingtonpost.com

Do you have any thoughts about returning this country to a more democratic system?

We will have elections in October, though we have the most democratic system now, a functional democracy. But Pakistan has never had democracy with elected governments. I am a dictator all right, because I am not elected. But I think my functioning is most democratic.

I will be left as the president and chief of army staff. I will retain the authority to dismiss [the government]. Our experience during the past 10 years was that the government itself was looting and plundering and misgoverning. That needs to be checked.

I became maybe a little emotional and sentimental about many of the things you asked about but these are the realities. You can't judge actions taken here in the context of the U.S. You have to be in my shoes to understand the difficulties. This is a complicated place. We have four mind-sets to satisfy: First, what do Pakistanis think of various issues? Second, what does the U.S. think? Third, what do the Kashmiris think? Fourth, what do the Indians think?
I have to take the country forward in spite of the militancy to the west, to the east, and in the center. I have to do this balancing act and it is not an easy job.
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