Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani President, received a stunning and unequivocal rebuke from Pakistani voters the other day, when his governing party was virtually obliterated in the election which was held: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120347037589978727.html. More significantly, the Islamists, who Mr. Musharraf had used as a political tool to maintain Western support in general and American support in particular, were equally thrashed.
Who will take power now in the world's only Muslim nuclear power (until Iran achieves its goal, that is)? Probably a coalition of parties that are thankfully also pro-Western. It could be that Pakistan is pulling itself back from the brink of civil war, as was the situation in late December, after Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. We can only hope that that is indeed the case...........
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Good article with encouraging signs. It is interesting that the terrorists might have less control once Musharraf leaves.
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