Musharraf's resume

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Lets see what the positive and negative things mushatrraf has done

strong economy
saved Pakistan from a buttkicking after 9/11
lal masjid terrorists chitrol
banning of sipah e sahaba etc
phainti of a corrupt ass CJ Ifti

cons

NRO
did not start chitrol of militants in time
phainti of a corrupt ass CJ Ifti

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his biggest negative: lacking the cunning needed to operate in pakistani political environment. his mistake on the political front has came to haunt pak big time. he should have foreseen the turmoil that would be created this year by his opponents who wanted to create chaos to prevent smooth political transition. musharraf could have neutralised his opponents by calling early elections. any assembly that would have emerged would have easily voted for giving him second term which would have taken supreme court out of play. once he had the mandate for second term, he would have much more leeway to deal with jehadis and incompetent judges. instead musharraf dismissed cj without thinking of political consequences. mistake on political front has given discredited politicians another lease on life.

other mistakes: giving too much freedom to jehadi-sympathising, ratings hungry media which turned any political development to full blown crisis. urdu medium pak media was always opposed to pak's cooperation with americans and lacking any ethics, media peddled all sorts of lies to make musharraf look unpopular. musharraf should have been smart enough to realise that pak society was not ready for unfettered media and he should have only given out licenses to groups who would have agreed to back his policies.

one more negative about musharraf is that he has been too eager to cultivate relationship with western media which will never portray pak in a good light. musharraf should have told gora media to take a hike and this wpuld have endeared him to pakistanis.

in summary, pak would have been better off if musharraf had acted like a dictator instead of dictator-lite. pakistanis see tolerance as weakness and weakness gives license to people to commit chaos. msuharraf should have clamped down much earlier.

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pros
-played usa like a fiddle, something no other pakistani ruler can claim

cons
-should have gotten the 2002 constitutional amendments approved by a public referendum, something that would have put bb/ns out of business
-rather than ban media, he ought to have unleashed them on ns/bb to his advantage

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the biggest positive for me is that he did away separate electorate for minorities. bb claims to be a secular leader and yet she had no problems in making minorities live under a system akin to aparthied. musharraf otoh ignored mullah cheekh pukkar and made sure minorities voted with muslims.

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the biggest negative for me is NRO, i could care less about ifti.
but the biggest blunder was surrounding himself with morons. he should have picked better ppl, he had the power to force PML-Q to field better candidates or atleat not have complete louts like wasi be a minister.

he brought shaukat in, he could have brought other such ppl in as well. and he did not, and to me that is the biggest disappointment.

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Plus:

Economy (esp boom in banking, telecom sectors)
Media (though it was slashed in later part of his regime)
Promotion of PhDs

Minus:
Let Nawaz Sharif go in 1st place
Let Nawaz Sharif go 2nd time
Dysfunctional NAB
Negotiate with BB for power
NRO
Kicked Judiciary around twice (2002, 2007)
Kicking constiution around
Delayed operation of Lal Masjid and using it to cover case against himself
Delayed operation of Swat
Issuing stupid statements like women are willing to be raped for asylum into other/western countries
Silence on May 12 massacre

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He could've used the people who are NOW part of care-taker cabinet as advisor or of some other important function.

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true, i blame him for not cleaning the leadership just liek I blame politicval parties for not cleaning their leadership ranks...not right in either situation.

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pros
- turning a failed bankrupt state into one of the worlds fastest growing economys
- booming economy, like my sig explains.
- increase tax collections,
- industrialization/business boom
- brough in good talented people into the gov, like shukat aziz, dr atta, dr shamshad aktar and others.
- increasing and promoting education.
- a vast improvement in infranstruchure
- setting up a free media and free judicary (not his fault that they abused their freedom)
- promoting arts and culture
- bringing bank reforms
- telecom boom and setting up of the telecom infranstruchure.
- real estate boom.
- killing molvis and terroists
- stock exchange boom
- introducing the new police force in islm and lahore which is corrupt free.
- gwadar port
- assisting and promoting entrepreneurship and bring in the capital for it.
- modinization or enlighted moderation

cons
- shouldnt have hanged nawaz shirif and bibi
- he shouldve controled pmlq, and not let the choudarys mess it up
- should have been more lenient against the oppersition from the begining,

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Very nice series of threads here :k:

Maybe we should have an audit report after all resumes are studied carefully to see who’s been best.

And let’s conclude who is the best. :smiley:

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Positive:

  • Saved Pakistan after years of mismanagement by previous governments.
  • Gave Pakistan Unprecedented Economic Growth; Free Media; and Free Judiciary.

Negatives:

  • Did not impose Emergency earlier. *]Did not act like a Dictataor.
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In no particular order this is a list of positive achievments of Musharraf's rule to date. There are other achievments, but 40 is enough for now. :)

  1. Balanced foreign policy – maintaining good relations with all major powers.
  2. Peace process with India.
  3. Strategically-wise and historic decision taken after 9/11 to support war against terrorists, and dumping Taliban.
  4. Withstanding American pressure and not sending troops to Iraq.
  5. Withstanding American pressure and proceeding with Gas pipeline with Iran
  6. Complete crackdown on sectarian terrorist groups, leading to almost complete end of Sunni-Shia killings that had plagued Pakistan for over a decade.
  7. Successfully smashing Baloch rebellion.
  8. Skillful handling of the AQ Khan scandal.
  9. Dropping vote age from 21 to 18.
  10. 20% reserved seats for women in National & Provincial assemblies.
  11. 33% reserved seats for women in Local Government bodies – over 28,000 women elected.
  12. Women’s Protection Bill.
  13. End of separate electorate system for minorities.
  14. Media freedom – dozens of private TV channels allowed for first ever time.
  15. Devolved Local Government System – getting rid of colonial DC system.
  16. Ending of loans from the IMF.
  17. Doubling of GDP from $70 to $140 billion in just 7 years.
  18. Doubling of per capita income from less than $500 to $1000 dollars.
  19. Year on year GDP growth averaging 7% or more.

  20. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) up from just $0.5 billion in 1999 to $8.4. billion this year.

  21. Forex reserves up under $1 billion in 1999 to over $16 billion today.

  22. Trebling of tax revenues from $5 to $15 billion.

  23. More than doubling of Exports from just $7.5 to $17 billion.

  24. 10-fold increase in overseas remittances from $0.5. to $5.5 billion.

  25. Highest ever allocated to the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) – 500 billion rupees in 2007 (less than 100 billion in 1999).

  26. Growing middle class of 35 million people.

  27. Elected assemblies (and President) completed their full 5-year terms for first time in Pakistani history.

  28. Creation of Higher Education Commission in 2002,

  29. Construction & completion of historic second port of GWADUR for Pakistan.

  30. Construction & completion of M1, M3, M9 & M10 motorways.

  31. Starting construction and/or completion of other historic highway projects – Makran Highway, Lyari bypass, M8 motorway, Karakoram upgrade etc.

  32. Key banking reforms, applauded by westen investors.

  33. Telecommunications boom.

  34. Stock market boom.

  35. Real Estate boom.

  36. Tens of thousands villages provided electricity and gas at a rate never seen before, during last 8 years.

  37. Dozens of small dams built across Pakistan

  38. Not using the “religion card” to further interests like previous leaders.

  39. Appointment of the most talented people to top positions – Shaukat Aziz, Dr Atta-ur-Rehman, Dr Shamshaf Akhtar, Zubaidar Jalal etc.

  40. Smooth and professional handover of Army Chief position to General Kiyani.

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Negatives.

  1. Going for elections to early in 2002. Should have waited at least a few more years.
  2. Related to above, he should not have let NAB deviate from it's across the board accountablity, in the rush to elections.
  3. NRO.
  4. Too much media freedom, too fast - should have been done in stages.
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Pluses:

Got rid of NA and BB at the start of his term
Bought in Shaukat Aziz who turned the economy around

Negatives

  1. Deal with corrupt people like the Chaudharies
  2. The most important thing for him is kursi not Pakistan
  3. To save his kursi did deal with BB
  4. Again did deal with NS to save his kursi
  5. Got himself elected by a rubber stamp parliament with 95% of the votes cast
  6. Used terrorist to further strengthen his hold on power
  7. Used Lal Masjid terrorist to counter CJ
  8. Kept quite about the May massacare, no investigation.
  9. Made shameful statements that women get raped to get visas to foreign countries.
  10. Kidnapped and held people in indefinite custody.
  11. Destroyed the judiciary in order to strengthen his hold on the power.
  12. While Swat and FATA burned he was busy gagging lawyers, journalists and anyone who spoke against him.
  13. Totally demoralised the army
  14. For the first time in the history of Pakistan the army was being despised by the people and this was due to Mush's behaviour. 15 Portrayed himself more important than Pakistan as anyone saying anything against him was charged with sedition.
  15. Destroyed free media.
  16. Imposed emergency to save his rule.
  17. Dealt brutally with people who opposed his emergency.

Kahan tuk sunno gey kahan tuk sunaaon
Croroen hee iss kee third class harkatein
mein kya kya bataoun. :)
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Mashallah Mashallah Mashallah. Aalsi bahi aap kuch ziada +ve nahin hogaye :biggthumb

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Agree 100% with Reza’s account :k:

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All of your Con's happened in 2007

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Mashallh. He is indeed the greatest Pakistani leader since Quaid-e-Azam. Long may he continue. :k:

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so destorying the media is a con but creating it isnt a postive, or did you just forget to put it there or did you just do it for the sake of it
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And do you know why he made such a cheap statement?......to protect the faujis who were implicated in the rape of Mukhtar Mai!

He will do anything for his kursi and to appease the army