Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Musharraf is our best bet By G. PARTHASARATHY

Reading recent Hamid Mir column made me search out for this fella article. Here is what G. PARTHASARATHY wrote in his column..

The February 2008 elections in Pakistan, in which Gen Pervez Musharraf’s loyalists were routed across the country, sent the diplomatic establishments in the White House in Washington and South Block in New Delhi into a tailspin. Despite warnings about Gen Musharraf’s growing unpopularity, the diplomatic establishments in New Delhi and Washington remained wedded to the “Musharraf is our best bet” syndrome and wrongly believed, till the very last moment, that Gen Musharraf was invincible and irreplaceable in Pakistan.

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