A wrong person to be made the fall guy?
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21411588-2703,00.html
Bhutto waits in wings as axe hangs over Pakistan’s PM
- Bruce Loudon, South Asia correspondent
- March 20, 2007
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s polished Prime Minister, former top Wall Street banker Shaukat Aziz, was in the crosshairs last night with reports that Pervez Musharraf will make him the fall guy, as the President tries to find a way out of the Chief Justice crisis.
In a deft piece of political footwork, the President sought to create the impression that in suspending Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and referring misconduct charges against him to the Supreme Judicial Council, he was doing what he was constitutionally required to do after receiving written advice from the Government headed by Mr Aziz. And amid speculation of renewed contacts between former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and the embattled President, who is facing his biggest challenge in seven years, there were suggestions Mr Aziz could be axed.
General Musharraf has sought publicly to create the impression that the genesis of the crisis was a reference from the Government regarding the misconduct allegations against the Chief Justice.
Since a midnight meeting between Mr Aziz and General Musharraf at the President’s Army House residence in Rawalpindi, rumours of a sacking have been rife. Yesterday, General Musharraf attended a dinner at the Prime Minister’s home, with government supporters, where he said he was “unhappy with some members of the cabinet over their mishandling of the crisis and with some others who kept aloof from the situation”.
Meanwhile Mr Aziz, confident that the Government would emerge unscathed from the crisis, has declared that “those planning to instigate the people against the Government will face ignominious defeat”.
Some analysts have suggested that Ms Bhutto, long suspected of behind-the-scenes contacts with General Musharraf, may be emerging in an even stronger position to strike a deal with him.
Ms Bhutto lives in exile in London and Dubai, but with her party commanding widespread support, she is believed to be anxious to return home to take advantage of the crisis.
C. Raja Mohan, of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, an astute observer of developments in Pakistan, yesterday wrote of a new dynamic unfolding in the country. “With the sense of the big moment at hand, Bhutto is making her moves fast and furious. Bhutto is seeking to inject herself right into the middle of the political storm in Pakistan,” he wrote. "Musharraf and the army have to swallow the bitter pill of conceding a lot more to Bhutto now than they would have had to a few months ago.
“Bhutto, meanwhile, has to balance the attractions of returning to power … against the dangers of sharing it with the army, on an unequal basis.”
…let this rumour stay a rumour 
ghunni..
