Why is the dictator still sitting in the army house

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@Spock

lol and how did you arrive at this conclusion? With that said, your own opinion of Kiani doesnt necessarily mean its factual. Kiani cant dare say a thing against his maibaap, i.e. Musharraf.

Such was conventional wisdom on these pages, and media when he was named.

Note the identity of these posters, I doubt any of them would have a vested interest in overstating his creds.

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showpost.php?p=5488120&postcount=47
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=270023
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showpost.php?p=5348266&postcount=16
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=265543

Not really, this whole show of taking of the wardi was done at the orders of the US, I already posted the link, it came a few days after Bush clearly said ‘take off your uniform’, just to present an image of instigating a transition to democracy, which never really happened. If they were so adament about democracy they’d tell Musharraf to just resign, which they wont because they back him.

Try reading what I write when responding. How is this remotely related to the text you are quoting? I speak of the army’s reluctance, as an institution, to wean itself off power, and you speak of Bush’s desire for democracy?

He was just one amongst the many. Just today Aitezaz said the same thing, everytime there is some progress, a US senator comes and forces the PPP to normalize relationships with the presidency. Like I said, there is a reason why he is referred to as Busharraf. :hehe:

US senators coming and “forcing” PPP to do anything is not what we disagreed about. It was whether there is a fundamental difference between democrats and republicans about Musharraf, and whether this is limited, as you said before, to Bush and his republican kabeenah.

Neither Bob Casey, nor Carl Levin are republicans. They are prominent democrats, who shape democratic foreign policy (Levin is the head of Senate Committe on Armed Services). Previous visits where it was alleged that US is pressuring pakistani politicians to stick with Mush also had prominent democrat politicians like Kerry/Biden/Harry Reid.