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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (8177)	9/3/2007 6:11:55 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: [Musharif is on his way out.] "When?" Looks like SOON. (Check the news --- he's lower then a snake's belly in Pakistan right now... politically weak-to-impotent, and forced by that political weakness to allow his political rivals --- the TWO former Pakistani Prime Ministers who were forced out of the country into foreign exile after the General installed himself via way of coup into the palace --- to come back into the country: Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.) Sharif has said he will return to Pakistan this month to try to stop President Pervez Musharraf standing for re-election while also serving as army chief. Bhutto has said she will announce the date of her return Sept. 14. (Of course, if Musharif tries to hold on to the office he captured by way of coup --- if he cancels or tries to force through phony elections one more time... then Pakistan is likely to break out in civil war....) "And who's on his way in?" Whomever the voters elect. Looks like (despite Musharif's preference for rigged "elections") Pakistan might actually have a REAL election pretty soon. If so, he's almost certainly to lose, he's very unpopular. ---------------------------------------------- Bhutto, 54, who leads the largest opposition Pakistan People's Party, said on Sept. 1 that talks with Musharraf on a power-sharing agreement had stalled. Bhutto, prime minister from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996, has lived in self-imposed exile in London and Dubai since 1999, after being accused of corruption in Pakistan and has cases still pending in the courts. Under the constitution, Bhutto and Sharif are prohibited from serving as prime minister for a third time and can't stand for election if they've been convicted for offenses that carry a jail term. Changes Sought Bhutto's demands ``require changes in the constitution that cannot be the subject of political arrangement,'' Aziz said. ``There are several court cases pending against her and the discussions have been on finding a way out on settling these issues through the legal process.'' Sharif, prime minister from 1990 to 1993 and 1997 to 1999, was convicted of corruption and treason and sentenced to 14 years in prison following his 1999 ouster. Musharraf pardoned him in 2000 under an agreement by which Sharif was to be exiled in Saudi Arabia for 10 years, the government says. Sharif said in London last month he will return on Sept. 10 following an Aug. 23 ruling by the country's Supreme Court. The chief government lawyer Malik Muhammad Qayyum said the president could revoke Sharif's pardon and he may be arrested on arrival. The government had earlier said the judgment would be respected. bloomberg.com "And what does that mean to us on the terrorist issue?" Well... since Musharif wasn't doing much good on that issue anyway --- I doubt that it will do the cause any actual HARM. And, having a real Democratic election could do a lot of good.