Musharraf Move Seen As Sign of Weakness

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Source: Associated Press

Musharraf move seen as sign of weakness

By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf backed away Thursday from imposing a state of emergency in Pakistan that would have drastically curtailed freedoms.

The decision came after strong opposition from critics in and out of government. That Musharraf was even considering such an idea was seen as a sign of weakness from the embattled leader as he seeks re-election for another five-year term.

Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, has come under increasing pressure from forces at home to restore full democracy, and rising U.S. criticism to do more to stop the Taliban and al-Qaida from regrouping in the restive border region with Afghanistan.

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Analysts say the talk of a state of emergency is a sign desperation is creeping in.

"Nothing seems to be working for him," said political analyst Talat Masood. Declaring a state of emergency "is his weapon of last resort. But it would be a weapon of mass destruction, of mass political destruction." "I don't see any prospects for him," agreed Rasul Bakhsh Rais, professor of political science at Lahore University of Management Sciences. By considering the imposition of a state of emergency, Musharraf had shown he was struggling hold power by normal political means. "He's riding a rudderless ship in the middle of a political storm".

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070809/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_emergency

[maxsolomon]

1. yet he recently found time to write a book

when you're only goal is not getting killed, all the other functions of your office fall by the wayside.

[Javaman]

2. but it will seem like a sign of power when moron* does it. nt

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3. Does this also mean (by the same logic)

Bush is loosing his grip in America & is now weaker too, because of warrant-less wiretaps, renditions, Patriot Act, New Homeland Security Dept, Gitmo Prison, FISA violations, the Economic & Infrastructure neglect, Global Warming Ignorance and so on, and so on?

And on the war on terrorism with Taliban and al-Qaida, he can't seem to find his ass with both hands?

:rofl: Hell, I fell safer already!

[ohio2007]

4. This is what he caved in to

ISLAMABAD: Ruling coalition legislator and parliamentary Secretary for Defence Major (retd) Syed Tanveer Hussain has advised the Pakistan government to recognise the Taliban and open all corridors for militants to wage jihad for the “liberation” of Kashmir.
“India will not give freedom to the Kashmiris through dialogue so we have to wage a jihad and our mujahideen will secure the freedom of Kashmir within six months,” he said, while speaking in the National Assembly during a debate on Pakistan’s foreign policy, local media reported with shock yesterday.
The stunning speech of the parliamentary secretary got a positive response from the Islamist alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal,
particularly when he praised the Taliban and asked the government to give a shut-up call to the US over its threats to Pakistan.
He also asked the government to counter the recent US ‘Pressler-type bill’ by allowing Jihad.
“The aid that forces us to mistreat our own people should be spewed out,” he added.

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He alleged that the American CIA was killing the Chinese in Pakistan to harm the cordial relations between the two countries. He also asked the government to open all the corridors for the jihadis to enter Indian-administered Kashmir so that they could wage jihad against India.

“We cannot get Kashmir on negotiations table but through jihad,” he said, while raising the slogans of ‘Al-Jihad, Al-Jihad’.
He said the government should renounce its ‘love affair’ with America and reject all kinds of aid. “We should improve our relations with Iran, China and Russia as the US will not give us anything except threats,” he added.
The parliamentary secretary said Muslims were being killed throughout the world under a conspiracy but “we have turned a blind eye to the same”. He stressed: “Our foreign policy must be based on the Holy Qur’an.” — Internews

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=165749&version=1&template_id=41&parent_id=23

So, the Americans were killing the Chinese in Pakistan ?Is that how the Chinese see it also ?
what, the CIA has infested the Red Mosque and told them the Chinese women were hookers and engineers were alcohol guzzling spies.



New Cold War,different ideology.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=203_1186813569
jmo

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5. I don't know what to think of this guy Musharraf.......I'm more

than sure Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega could give Musharraf excellent advise.