Could This Actually Be The End For Pervez Musharraf?
Pakistan’s Daily Times newspaper has on its website the headline DEAL IS DONE. By which it means Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s military dictator since 1999 and architect of its post-9/11 strategic re-pivot back toward the U.S., is finally out of power. Musharraf’s condition for resignation, unsurprisingly, is indemnity from prosecution: The coalition government has offered indemnity and security to President Pervez Musharraf if he resigns, sources privy to the developments said on Thursday. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif has agreed to change his rigid stance against the president, who is likely to finalise a decision in the next few days. The drop scene is likely in a few days, the sources said. This has been predicted — without the degree of specificity on offer at the moment, but still — so many times that it’s hard to believe until Musharraf actually goes into exile. But the constellation of forces this time are overwhelming and implacably against Musharraf.
