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India-Pakistan
Perv sure of victory
2002-04-09
  • In a wide-ranging interview in Monday's Le Figaro, newspaper President Pervez Musharraf says he is confident that he will win next month's referendum because "my goal is to establish in Pakistan a real democracy.
    It's also to remain employed for the next five yeaers.
    The referendum will confirm that the people want me. It will also reinforce me politically, all the while weakening my adversaries. In saying 'yes,' the Pakistani people will express their willingness to break with the errors of the past and, therefore, support my project for democratic reform."
    Any "vote of confidence" will last three months, outside, until Qazi and Fazl and Sami can convince the marks faithful the election was a.)illegal and b.)fixed. I believe the widely held assumption even among sympathetic parties is that both are true.
    Queried as to whether Pakistan - which recently obtained from the Paris Club the rescheduling for over a 38-year period of its bilateral debt of US$ 12 billion - planned to request the cancellation of all or part of its existing multilateral debt of US$24 billion, Mr Musharraf said he didn't think that would be necessary because "we plan to successfully introduce a plan to relaunch our economy which will liberate us from (the problem of) debt."
    Well, if they brought all the gunnies and snuffies into the labor force and spent some of the money they're spending on financing jihad on industrial base, that might happen. But they won't, so it won't.
  • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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