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2007-03-18 India-Pakistan

Present turmoil conspiracy against me: Musharraf

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Musharraf is a perfect role model for paranoiacs. Everyone is out to get him.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-18 03:19|| 2007-03-18 03:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Damage control mode. A deal has been made.
Expect India, Israel and the US to be blamed.

It is reliably learnt that a group of six corps commanders in the Pakistan Army has jointly written to President Pervez Musharraf expressing their disquiet over the unwise manner in which the case of Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhury, the suspended Chief Justice, has been handled by Musharraf and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and over the shocking ransacking of the offices of the GEO TV, a private TV, channel and the manhandling of Hamid Mir, its leading journalist, who is well known all over the world, on March 16,2007.

Rattled by the continuing demonstrations, the criticism by some of his officers and the first public remarks by the US State Department indicating unease over his action, Musharraf has asked Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, the former Prime Minister, who is a good personal friend of the suspended Chief Justice, to find a face-saving. Both are from Balochistan.

The face-saving formula now under discussion envisages a ruling by the SJC that the charges against the suspended Chief Justice were not serious enough to warrant any action against him, his restoration to his position as the Chief Justice and an assurance by him that while the cases relating to the missing persons (many of them are in the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay) would continue to be on his file, he will not pursue them . He will adjourn the hearings on them repeatedly. The Chief justice is till now not prepared to give this assurance.

Musharraf has promised Jamali that if he persuades the suspended Chief Justice to co-operate, he would restore him (Jamali) to the post of the Prime Minister from which he was replaced by Shaukat Aziz in 2004.

As part of the damage control, Musharraf has blamed the police and the para-military forces for the ransacking of the GEO TV office and the manhandling of Hamid Mir. He is trying to project it as a rogue operation by the police and para-military officers, which shocked him.

He has already suspended 15 police officers for this. These suspensions have caused resentment against him in the police. Reliable police sources say that the order to silence the GEO TV and Hamid Mir came from Tariq Aziz, Musharraf's National Security Adviser. The police officers are furious that now they are being made the fall guy.

Posted by John Frum 2007-03-18 09:41|| 2007-03-18 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Drat.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-18 10:33|| 2007-03-18 10:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Uneasy lies the head

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-18 16:19|| 2007-03-18 16:19|| Front Page Top

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