Musharraf, Benazir, Altaf a US dream team for Pakistan

[Captain1]

Re: Musharraf, Benazir, Altaf a US dream team for Pakistan

@Shamraz_Khan

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-10-28-pakistan-bhutto_N.htm

Official: U.S. forced Pakistan to allow Bhutto back

By Paul Wiseman, USA TODAY
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United States pressured Pakistan to allow former prime minister Benazir Bhutto to return from exile, promoting her as a moderate influence in a country facing a growing threat from Islamic extremists, a Pakistani government spokesman said.

Where is Sa1eem to deny all these “lies”? Pakistan is a “SOVEREIGN” state and does not take dictation from any country whether it is US, UK or Swaziland, right Sa1eem mian? Few more highlights here:

“She says what America wants to hear,”** Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan** said in a weekend interview with USA TODAY. He said the U.S. government forced a reluctant Pakistan to allow her to return after eight years of self-imposed exile: “You twisted our arm.”

So it is not some unkown official saying that

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said the Bush administration is **encouraging **Musharraf to work with moderates and hold the elections, but other U.S. officials have denied meddling.

I know what you will say about “encouraging”, 10 paragraphs explaining difference between encouraging and “telling” :cb:

He dropped corruption charges against Bhutto and let her return. In return, she and her supporters agreed not to fight his Oct. 6 re-election to another five-year term as president by a panel of national and provincial lawmakers.