Do People Realize that Pakistan if Far Better Off Then When Under "Democratic" Bhutto?

Question

Getting rid of Saddam didn't exactly make life better for Iraqis.

Why does anyone think that getting rid of Musharraf would be a good thing?

Pakistan's economy and standard of living has done well under Musharaff.

Answer 1

Bhutto was Ms. failed State !!!!

Ms. corrupt failed State Bhutto!

Corrupt Bhutto wants power for herself not for the people!

Musharraf understands, to preserve the republic, he has to adapt to the circumstances, in order to ride out the storm and have elections down the road.

Musharraf overthrowing the corrupt regime, saved Pakistan's future.

If Bhutto was to return to power, Taliban/ Al qadea would blow her up, and take over...

Answer 2

Bhutto is hated by most Pakistanis as she was in power twice and both times kicked out for corruption. Also Swiss courts have an 'open and shut case' against her. She is power hungry, first she made an alliance with the opposition but threw it in their face as soon as she sniffed she maybe let in to power by Musharraf. Now she wants to go back to the opposition. Also she has served twice (maximum under Pakistan Constitution), she wants the supreme court to change that for her, the same supreme court she is asking not to change the constitution for Musharraf. Has this women no shame

Answer 3

Really I think this whole thing is a lot to do about nothing. My brother-in-law is a Pakistani Muslim.. and as soon as this whole thing broke I called him and asked him about it. He said that Musharraf just has some people he wants to fire but doesn't have the authority to as President.. and once he gets things lined out will return to a full Democracy. I tend to trust his opinion on this over the medias.. and as such am not very concerned with the whole ordeal. Now that doesn't mean he should keep taking advantage of his powers like this.... but that's an issue for their Congress to fix when Democracy is reinstated.

Answer 4

I don't think you really know anything about Pakistan. Musharraf is EXTREMELY unpopular there, and we don't need the stink from him attaching to US. Benazir Bhutto is Harvard and Oxford educated, and actually, it's been the Bush Administration that has been trying to orchestrate getting her as the next Prime Minister. They think she will be a better ally than Musharraf and I agree, for once, with them.

Answer 5

That is actually a valid point...since musharraf, pakistan's economy has been growing at 7% per year.

Answer 6

those areas of the international might certainly at situations have enjoyed a extra ideal standard of residing everyday under colonial rule, yet it is no longer proper. interior the final 0.5 century and extra those former colonies have broken faraway from colonial "rule" and alter into, in many circumstances, financial colonies, based on distant countries or firms for direct help, or commerce in probable an unfair exchange. China is desperate honest to alter into the biggest erconomic colonising potential in Africa interior the no longer too distant destiny. even nevertheless it quite is perplexing, given the spirit of the situations interior the Fifties and Sixties, to think of ecu colonial powers putting directly to important former colonies..

Answer 7

Who says we are going to? He is getting rid of pro-democracy protesters, under the war on terror, doesn't that make it ok?
Afterall, he could beat around the Bush and just put them on no-fly lists, and wait until they stage a protest that disrupts business in a market or something, then jail them.
But why waste the time, when everyone already knows whats up?

Answer 8

Yes, a lot of people do, except of course the MSM


Aunt Benazir's false promises
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Bhutto's return bodes poorly for Pakistan -- and for democracy there.
By Fatima Bhutto
November 14, 2007
KARACHI -- We Pakistanis live in uncertain times. Emergency rule has been imposed for the 13th time in our short 60-year history. Thousands of lawyers have been arrested, some charged with sedition and treason; the chief justice has been deposed; and a draconian media law -- shutting down all private news channels -- has been drafted.

Perhaps the most bizarre part of this circus has been the hijacking of the democratic cause by my aunt, the twice-disgraced former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto. While she was hashing out a deal to share power with Gen. Pervez Musharraf last month, she repeatedly insisted that without her, democracy in Pakistan would be a lost cause. Now that the situation has changed, she's saying that she wants Musharraf to step down and that she'd like to make a deal with his opponents -- but still, she says, she's the savior of democracy.

The reality, however, is that there is no one better placed to benefit from emergency rule than she is. Along with the leaders of prominent Islamic parties, she has been spared the violent retributions of emergency law. Yes, she now appears to be facing seven days of house arrest, but what does that really mean? While she was supposedly under house arrest at her Islamabad residence last week, 50 or so of her party members were comfortably allowed to join her. She addressed the media twice from her garden, protected by police given to her by the state, and was not reprimanded for holding a news conference. (By contrast, the very suggestion that they might hold a news conference has placed hundreds of other political activists under real arrest, in real jails.)

Ms. Bhutto's political posturing is sheer pantomime. Her negotiations with the military and her unseemly willingness until just a few days ago to take part in Musharraf's regime have signaled once and for all to the growing legions of fundamentalists across South Asia that democracy is just a guise for dictatorship.

It is widely believed that Ms. Bhutto lost both her governments on grounds of massive corruption. She and her husband, a man who came to be known in Pakistan as "Mr. 10%," have been accused of stealing more than $1 billion from Pakistan's treasury. She is appealing a money-laundering conviction by the Swiss courts involving about $11 million. Corruption cases in Britain and Spain are ongoing.

It was particularly unappealing of Ms. Bhutto to ask Musharraf to bypass the courts and drop the many corruption cases that still face her in Pakistan. He agreed, creating the odiously titled National Reconciliation Ordinance in order to do so. Her collaboration with him was so unsubtle that people on the streets are now calling her party, the Pakistan People's Party, the Pervez People's Party. Now she might like to distance herself, but it's too late.

Why did Ms. Bhutto and her party cronies demand that her corruption cases be dropped, but not demand that the cases of activists jailed during the brutal regime of dictator Zia ul-Haq (from 1977 to 1988) not be quashed? What about the sanctity of the law? When her brother Mir Murtaza Bhutto -- my father -- returned to Pakistan in 1993, he faced 99 cases against him that had been brought by Zia's military government. The cases all carried the death penalty. Yet even though his sister was serving as prime minister, he did not ask her to drop the cases. He returned, was arrested at the airport and spent the remaining years of his life clearing his name, legally and with confidence, in the courts of Pakistan.

Ms. Bhutto's repeated promises to end fundamentalism and terrorism in Pakistan strain credulity because, after all, the Taliban government that ran Afghanistan was recognized by Pakistan under her last government -- making Pakistan one of only three governments in the world to do so.

And I am suspicious of her talk of ensuring peace. My father was a member of Parliament and a vocal critic of his sister's politics. He was killed outside our home in 1996 in a carefully planned police assassination while she was prime minister. There were 70 to 100 policemen at the scene, all the streetlights had been shut off and the roads were cordoned off. Six men were killed with my father. They were shot at point-blank range, suffered multiple bullet wounds and were left to bleed on the streets.

My father was Benazir's younger brother. To this day, her role in his assassination has never been adequately answered, although the tribunal convened after his death under the leadership of three respected judges concluded that it could not have taken place without approval from a "much higher" political authority.

I have personal reasons to fear the danger that Ms. Bhutto's presence in Pakistan brings, but I am not alone. The Islamists are waiting at the gate. They have been waiting for confirmation that the reforms for which the Pakistani people have been struggling have been a farce, propped up by the White House. Since Musharraf seized power in 1999, there has been an earnest grass-roots movement for democratic reform. The last thing we need is to be tied to a neocon agenda through a puppet "democrat" like Ms. Bhutto.

By supporting Ms. Bhutto, who talks of democracy while asking to be brought to power by a military dictator, the only thing that will be accomplished is the death of the nascent secular democratic movement in my country. Democratization will forever be de-legitimized, and our progress in enacting true reforms will be quashed. We Pakistanis are certain of this.

Fatima Bhutto is a Pakistani poet and writer. She is the daughter of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, who was killed in 1996 in Karachi when his sister, Benazir, was prime minister.

Answer 9

Which people are doing the realizing here?