There are strong reports coming in from Islamabad that General Musharraf may truly [finally] be unseated and sent home packing.

Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani held an extremely important meeting with President Pervez Musharraf at the Army House Rawalpindi late on Wednesday. The meeting continued till after midnight lasting more than three-and-a-half hours. This was their longest one-on-one encounter. The meeting, which was significant in view of the current political and security situation in the country, gained further importance as it took place after day-long consultations of the Army chief with his important commanders.

The chain reaction started from the change of command in the Triple-One Brigade [Military unit designated to protect the President of Pakistan] where Brigadier Faheem Rao was asked to take over immediate command replacing the president’s loyal commander Brigadier Aasim Bajwa and reports saying that Musharraf has also been asked to vacate the Army House in Rawalpindi which he continues to occupy despite his retirement many months ago.



General Kiyani has waited long enough, but I suspect its not all Kiyani’s push, he was definitely spurred on by the reawakening of Asif Ali Zardari who as been at Musharraf’s throat since the day his last criminal case was dismissed under the NRO deal, pardoning him of all his wrong doings. It is from that very day we see a change in the stance of Zardari aggressiveness towards Musharraf.

News reports suggest that a deal is being negotiated for providing ‘safe passage’ to the dictator is that justice served when this Enlightened Moderator and make spaghetti out of our country and then get up negotiate a safe passage to safer lands.



The people of Pakistan deserve an answer and must hold people accountable for their actions and deeds. Some semblance of justice needs to prevail to pacify an edge nation but more importantly future politicians need to be forewarned to keep on a tight shift or else they may face similar consequences, no more safe exits.

With a crumbling economy we cannot take any more chances we need to mend our affairs and if Zardari wants to be a proper politician who saves the day for Pakistan he needs to ensure that corruption be kept at minimum, But wait – aren’t we already languishing in a cesspool of proven criminals with millions of dollars of corruption in their tenure, so naturally its their basic instinct to first protect their ‘own kind’, you scratch my back I scratch yours [in the hope that God Forbid he may need the favor in return sometime in the future] – while rest of the nation can starve to death crushed under with starvation from escalating living costs with no potential relief in sight.

I honestly question the logic of negotiating a safe passage for Musharraf to sneak out of the country without accountability, if he is innocent then provide him an independent judiciary [ruling out PCO and Non-PCO judges due to a political bias] and take him through a free and fair trial. Let the courts decide whats a fair punishment and let it not be a mockery like the trials of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

But if Musharraf [god forbid] is found guilty then he must be made to face the consequences. Sadly the moment I share this idea it immediately reverts to being a diminishing dream, to have any politicians accountable for their actions and deeds is something which Pakistan still has to witness