Posted on 08/14/2008 10:27:15 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Faced with desertions by his political supporters and the neutrality of the Pakistani military, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, an important ally of the United States, is expected to resign in the next few days rather than face impeachment charges, Pakistani politicians and Western diplomats said Thursday.
His departure from office would be likely to unleash new instability in the country as the two main parties in the civilian government jockeyed for the division of power.
The details of how Mr. Musharraf would exit, and whether he would be able to stay in Pakistan — apparently his strong preference — or would seek residency abroad were now under discussion, the politicians said.
Mr. Musharraf was expected to resign before the governing coalition presented charges for impeachment to the Parliament early next week, said Nisar Ali Khan, a senior official in the Pakistani Muslim League-N, the minority partner in the coalition government.
Similarly, Sheikh Mansoor Ahmed, a senior official of the Pakistan Peoples Party, the major party in the coalition, said Thursday that the president would probably leave in the “next 72 hours.”
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Senator Biden & Kerry went to Pakistan to undermine the elections to weaken Musharref earlier this year.
During the election process and from Pakistan they renounced Mushareff and called for support for his opposition and were successful.
The result?
The new Pakistani Government started releasing Taliban from Jails. The released Taliban travelled to Afganistan and commenced kill American & allied soldiers.
Now why shouldn’t Kerry & Biden have to answer for this?
...and Pakistan still has nuclear bombs.
Oh great! I hope we have a good plan in place to secure their nukes before their parliament turns them over to the Taliban.
The Taliban wins! The Taliban wins!
Take THAT, you nasty old neocons. Now the way is open to shift our forces to Afghanistan, and take over the regime change in Pakistan. Iraq may be shucked off and forgotten, by staying there we probably will be sucked into an all-out war with Iran.
< /sarcasm >
Not the Taliban — India.
They’re licking their chops at the oppotunity to do a Russia - Georgia thing to Pakistan and/or Kashmir
Did you see this one:
Israel to surrender Jerusalem property to Russia
Interesting times...
Why the < /sarcasm> tag?
If we had just turned our boys loose for a couple months, OBL would be dead now and Musharraf might not have so much opposition right now.
OBL with Nukes....The legacy of President Pollyanna.
Famous W quotes:
“Islam means ‘Peace’”
“Our Dear Friends, the Saudis”
Not directed at you, but the situation that seems to be unfolding. It is a safe bet that Pakinstan’s nukes are going to end up in the hands of radical Islamists who are hell bent on bringing on Armageddon. That is a pretty scary scenario.
bttt
Obama will wait to see what President Bush does before he issues any orders to Pakistan.
Not good. If your country is overrun with Taliban/AQ goons AND has nuclear weapons, who do you think can do a better job keeping a lid on things: a military dictator or some deomcratically-elected figurehead with limited powers who changes every few years?
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