Chowrangi

President Pervez Musharraf is loosing control by the day over affairs of state and administration. Since March 9, 2007 we have seen his government making one mistake after the other, expanding the gulf between public and himself.

Elections 2008 proved to be final nail in the coffin as public have spoken against Musharraf’s regime and its policies. Now, as the dust of elections is settling down and new parliament is in formation, people of Pakistan are looking towards the newly-elects to honor their mandate.

There is no second thought that both PPP and PML-N want Musharraf to go. While PPP is not declaring it openly and Zardari is still busy in “bringing all stakeholders on board”, Nawaz Sharif is not mincing his words. PML-N fought and won the elections on promise of liberation of judiciary and its chief, Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Nawaz Sharif is quite vocal in this issue and has recently addressed a procession of lawyers right in front of Judges Colony in Islamabad.

It is also evident that certain forces do not want restoration of judiciary because they take independent judiciary, and judges that act suo-moto on issues of national interest, as strong threat to their ambitions. These forces are trying to lure Nawaz Sharif away from his mandate and it seems that they can do anything to achieve their goal. They may offer Nawaz Sharif his nemesis if he backs off from his vow of restoration of judiciary.

Former US Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbott, who is now president of the well known think tank, the Brookings Institution, thinks Musharraf’s days are numbered, ” It’s just not clear how he will exit and what form he will leave office”.

Similar report is published in the Sunday Telegraph (UK).

Senators John Kerry, Joe Biden, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Chuck Hagel, who visited Pakistan as international observers and have met with Musharraf after his party’s defeat in Elections 2008, have urged for a “graceful exit” of Musharraf from power, AP reports.

Chuck Hagel told CNN’s “Late Edition” that it is his guess that the Pakistani president “wants a graceful way out of this. And I think that’s what you’ll see. Then it will be up to the coalition government to take on some of these tough challenges”. [war on terror]

Talking with ABC, Biden said, “He walked in and said, ‘Look, the results are in. I lost. I am prepared to be a transition’ — he didn’t use these words — ‘a transition figure’ here”.

Democratic Senator Joe Biden is same guy who proposed and got approved a resolution in United States senate to divide Iraq into three Bosnia-style ethnic regions consisting of Shia Arab, Sunni Arab and Kurd factions.

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