Monday, June 05, 2006

Mush, President?

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If it weren’t true, this could have hit the fiction bestsellers list. Pakistan Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf gets fired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999. While Sharif ’s plane is on its way to Islamabad, Musharraf carries out a coup ousting Sharif. Musharraf suspends the Constitution as well. Seven months later, the Pakistan Supreme Court validates the coup. By June 2001, Musharraf names himself President. Taken aback, the then US President Bill Clinton later claimed his plans to get to Osama bin Laden through millions of dollars in pay-off s to the Sharif Government collapsed with the coup. This was bizarre because the Sharif government backed the Taliban and bin Laden. Musharraf too supported the Taliban until the 9/11 attack when it became easier for him to side with the US instead.

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