Poor Musharraf
By Col. Riaz Jafri
(Retd.)
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
My friends dub me as pro-Musharraf.
I like him to the extent that he is honest, hard
working and earnestly trying to introduce democracy
from the grassroots level. However, his very first
experiment for restoring democracy at the top
has not earned him any kudos. The havoc being
played to the exchequer by Shaukat Aziz on his
Fauj-e-Zafar Mauj of ministers and parliamentarians
- foreign trips, escalation in the pay and perks,
doubling and tripling the development funds etc.
- is too obvious to be ignored. The irony is that
Musharraf is blamed for all this. His dilemma
is that if he controls the PM and company he will
be accused of stifling democracy, and if he doesn't,
he is blamed for being a party to it.
Could someone please advise him what to do?
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