Thanks, but no thanks Mr. Musharraf
Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s memoirs seem to be little more than an election campaign filled with fabrications, insinuations and self-serving tripe. This view is based on the opinions expressed by ‘experts’ on both sides of the border.
Also in the book is Musharraf’s apparent disillusionment with Indian PM Dr. Manmohan Singh’s leadership and imagination. And he has some advice for the good doctor…
He has this advice for Singh: “I feel if a leader is to break away from hackneyed ideas and frozen positions, he has to be bold. He has to dominate the establishment, rather than letting it dictate to him”.
[source: IBNLive]
Isn’t that precious!? Perhaps someone should remind Mush that we have something called democracy in India. And it functions slightly differently from the dictatorship he is used to, in Pakistan.
And in any case, Musharraf’s four-point “out-of-the-box” solution is anything but “out-of-the-box” or imaginative! It’s just a rehashed proposal that Pakistan has been trying to push for ages, and one that has been consistently found unacceptable by India since it involves partitioning J&K along religious or sectarian lines.
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Mush has recently alleged that ‘US threatned to bomb Pak to Stone Age’. Its no secret that, thats what would have happend given the U turn that Pak has taken against Taliban. Anyways., he had to be at White house and this time Bush would have delivered the message personally that he will hang Mush in amazon desert if he tries to tell these kind of stuff in public. All Mush. had to say was, he made allegation as PR stunt to promote his book.
What credibility does he/his-book enjoy any more after he made fool of himself ?
By the way, nice blog
I totally agree. Wrote a similar post on this myself :)
Indiax>> Thanks. I don’t know what Bush may have told Musharraf at the White House, but that hasn’t stopped Musharraf from giving out nonsensical sound bytes to the media, ahead of his book launch! :)
Pratish>> I enjoyed reading your post. It was quite apt! As you said, Musharraf should not try any new adventures with India now.
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