Pakistan today.Your Thoughts.?

Question

The political situation in Pakistan today and your opinion.

Answer 1

Musharraf came to power via coup de etat and then, in a bid to hold onto his position, cozied up to the US after 9/11(He is nothing if not an opportunist). The US did not look at the long term ramifications of getting in bed with this guy (do we ever?) and now we have another failing military dictator on our hands.

Pakistan has had enough of his broken promises and now wants him out, so he has declared marshal law.

He won't last much longer.

Guessing here, but I think Bhutto will regain power. And she is pretty level headed, so this might turn out OK.

Or it might become the first nuclear conflict (Pakistan and India).

Hope for the best everybody.

Answer 2

Pakistan is a single bullet away from a civil war. As soon as Musariff is gone or assassinated the entire country, which never was a real country anyway but a breakaway part of India, will go the way of every one of those pasted together countries in that part of the world. Nobody can hold a country together without the consent of the people or overwhelming force....both in short supply in Pakistan. No matter what the Bush Junta tell you, our military in that part of the world has zero influence on events....the infection is way too wide spread and the sooner we acknowledge that fact the sooner we can make some real plans to deal with the real world. We can't make the entire middle and central east a giant 'Fort Green Zone'....It's time to vamoose muy pronto.....defend our borders and let them work it out themselves.

Answer 3

No doubt they will get Bhutto - a true paragon of virtue.

Truly Musharraf is between a rock and a hard place. The Americans want him to follow policy that would get him assassinated.

Let me point out that Britain caused all this by partitioning India.

Answer 4

It's about time Musharraf did something.

Answer 5

As an old Chinese saying puts it, " A benign dictator is better than any elected ruler".