Musharaf: I Will Stay

The politics of Pakistan has always been very difficult to say the least. The fair relatively fair elections held in the country has lead to the opposition parties of the former parliament to office. It is therefore no surprise that they are not in favour of having the current President and former General Pervez Musharraf as the president for the future. Today however in a meeting at the Presidential camp in Rawalpindi the President said to the PML-Q (the party that most favoured him) that the last parliament voted him in for 5 years and no one would be allowed to change that. He along side the Members of the PML-Q (headed by the former chief Minister of Punjab Perez Elahi) worked on forming a strategy to stop the opposition parties removing him from office.

With the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Party (PML-N) determined to remove Musharaf from office and Musharaf determined to stay in power, it looks like an intereresting situation, but sadly one battle that could cause even more damage to the public of Pakistan that is has already suffered.

Weather Musharaf stays in power or is removed, one thing we must all accept is that he has given the people of Pakistan their fundamental right of a free and fair election. The people of Pakistan who have suffered from the food/electrical/gas shortages of recent times have voted against the President, the same person who gave the country rapid economic growth, through his financial policies. President Musharaf, in my view deserves more praise than he gets and I feel that the people of Pakistan have made a big mistake by allowing the former parties who robbed the country of everything it was worth and left it almost liquidated in 1999. The same people who ran away from the country when it was in need to support and have now come back when Pakistan is economically developing, to take from it what it has worked hard to earn over the past 8 years.