Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Pakistan - President Pervez Musharraf resigns
AFP via translation | August 18, 2008

Posted on 08/18/2008 1:12:57 AM PDT by HAL9000

via translation

ALERT - The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns

ISLAMABAD - President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan announced his resignation Monday, the eve of an impeachment procedure announced by his government.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; dajjal; geopolitics; kayani; musharraf; nukes; pakistan; resignation; taliban
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last

1 posted on 08/18/2008 1:12:57 AM PDT by HAL9000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: HAL9000
BBC News - Pakistan's Musharraf will resign
2 posted on 08/18/2008 1:14:18 AM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000

Who will take over and control Pakistan’s nukes?


3 posted on 08/18/2008 1:17:15 AM PDT by Justice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000

AP NewsAlert

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he is resigning


4 posted on 08/18/2008 1:20:44 AM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000

Was he already in exile when he resigned?


5 posted on 08/18/2008 1:22:03 AM PDT by Gamecock (The truth of Christianity does not hinge on my personal experience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000

Better the devil you know, than the devil you don’t know.


6 posted on 08/18/2008 1:22:19 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000
http://www.geo.tv/8-18-2008/22968.htm

Musharraf announces resignation

Updated at: 1405 PST, Monday, August 18, 2008

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf announced in a televised address to the nation Monday that he had decided to resign after nine years in power to avoid the threat of impeachment.

"After viewing the situation and consulting legal advisers and political allies, with their advice I have decided to resign," a grim-faced Musharraf said, backed by Pakistani flags and a portrait of the country's founder.

"I leave my future in the hands of people."

Musharraf made the shock announcement after denying that any of the impeachment charges against him could stand and launching into a lengthy defence of his time in power.

"Not a single charge in the impeachment can stand against me," Musharraf said. "No charge can be proved against me because I never did anything for myself, it was all for Pakistan."

He said that there was now law and order in the country, that human rights and democracy had been improved and that Pakistan was now an crucial country internationally.

"On the map of the world, Pakistan is now an important country, by the grace of Allah," he said.


7 posted on 08/18/2008 1:22:53 AM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000

hopefully freepers who advocated this man’s removal will be happy with the eventually replacement situation and its impact on US interests. I do not expect that this will be the case, however.

I believe this dictator never had sufficient political power and capital to simply purge the ISI. There were multiple enacted attempts to kill him that were made public in the last 7 years alone - it isn’t like he didn’t have a vested interest in controlling radical elements in and out of his government. If Freepers are thinking a more conventional replacement will be more effective, I wish them luck.


8 posted on 08/18/2008 1:26:11 AM PDT by WoofDog123
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yans Wife

Exactly what I was thinking.


9 posted on 08/18/2008 1:32:46 AM PDT by Shelayne (After seeing Obama without teleprompter, I think the tingle on Chris Matthews' leg is probably pee.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: WoofDog123

Dictators (in the sense of absolutist despots) rarely resign from office.


10 posted on 08/18/2008 1:33:30 AM PDT by Vanders9
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: WoofDog123

I expect that the U.S. will have some input into the choice of his successor.


11 posted on 08/18/2008 1:34:16 AM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000

I HOPE at least. The only damn I give about Pakistan are it’s nukes.


12 posted on 08/18/2008 1:35:17 AM PDT by SolidWood (God Bless Georgia and grant them victory over Russia!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000

The world is becoming more unstable and dangerous by the minute.


13 posted on 08/18/2008 1:35:51 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000
Times of India - Next Pak President may be a woman: PPP
14 posted on 08/18/2008 1:50:12 AM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000
I expect that the U.S. will have some input into the choice of his successor.

Given the anti-American bent of those who are coming into power, I doubt we'll have much input or even influence.

Moreover, this result is going to embolden the Islamists that infest the ISI.

You can expect less, not more, effort to control the lunatics roaming around in the Tribal Areas. You might even expect that they will be surreptitiously funded by the ISI.

Ditto for Kashmir.

These are likely to be troubled times for the Subcontinent.

15 posted on 08/18/2008 1:54:27 AM PDT by John Valentine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000

This can’t be good.


16 posted on 08/18/2008 1:55:14 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: John Valentine

That’s one possible outcome, but we’ve been preparing for this contingency for some time, and we were instrumental in organizing their elections. We still have some leverage there.


17 posted on 08/18/2008 2:09:33 AM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: John Valentine

Correct. More of the slide into Islamic fundamentalism.
Which has basically nullified and destroyed any concept of Mid-East culture and influence.

But there is a country there that won’t take this lying down.
And they have the means and discipline and will, and they are already getting a bit fed up.

India will, if it decides to and believes it has to do it to survive, slaughter them unmercifully. Virgins or not.


18 posted on 08/18/2008 2:09:54 AM PDT by djf (Get ready! Buy Cheez Wiz! It goes with anything!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: HAL9000

One other note - General Kayani remains in charge of the Army. He is arguably more important to our national interests than Musharraf. If Kayani goes, that would be more alarming.


19 posted on 08/18/2008 2:17:29 AM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Justice

sadly, who ever wants to. we are living in interesting times. hope the next president has some packets of no-doz handy.


20 posted on 08/18/2008 2:22:35 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson