Wednesday, November 14, 2007

"It's time for Musharraf to step down"

In the past few months there has been a lot going on with Pakistani politics. Pervez Musharraf, president and army chief, dropped corruption charges against the former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Buhutto, last month. Musharraf was hoping to gain an ally against the extremists, but this allows for a potential sharing of powers that both Musharraf and Buhutto are not willing to share. On November 3 Musharraf declared a state of emergency due to the recent activities of extremists and suspended the nation's constitution. Buhutto refuses to leave Pakistan in the state that is in in and asks Musharraf to step down as president. Although Buhutto is now allying with former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif media shows that Buhutto does not have a strong support group. Still, Musharraf is advised to give up his position as amry chief and to focus on the real issue at hand. Will Buhutto gain more support before elections? What is Musharraf's priority: to maintain presidency or to quickly end the emergency rule in Pakistan?

1 comment:

Allen Kim said...

Because Musharraf is a brute leader, I believe that his priority is to maintain presidency rather than quickly ending the emergency rule in Pakistan. In 1999, he committed a coup d'etat in order to seize power. After that, he made many promises to the Pakistanis which he failed to keep. He did not even try to meet his promises; he exploited his power and was ultimately a corrupted leader. So, I think that he'd want to maintain his presidency in order to exploit more of his powers.