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Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday took oath of the office of president of Pakistan. He could not have ever imagined to become the president, when his illustrious wife and a two time prime minister was leading the Pakistan Peoples Party. Her assassination in a bomb and suicide attack on December 27 in the city of Rawalpindi changed his fate.
The swearing in ceremony was routine, but with shouts of "Bhutto is alive" , "Long Live Bhutto" even during the national anthem playing when everyone is supposed to stand up in silence to pay respects to it.
Then the joint press conference of Mr Zardari with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was not impressive at all. It was a big mistake on part of media managers of Mr Zardari to have a joint press conference, when it was his first press conference after being sworn-in as president. The entire exercise proved futile as it eclipsed the take off of Mr Zardari. Most of the questions were related to terrorism and how the two countries were suffering.
Many whispered about American desires behind the presence of Karzai in the inaugural ceremony and the joint presser. If a neighbouring countries' head of the state was to be invited, then it was good opportunity to invite all our long-time ally China and Saudi Arabia for bailing us out of the crisis caused by rising oil prices. But both Chinese and Saudis might not like the democratic chaos at the high offices in Pakistan. Hacks said that Karzai was there as US proxy.
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It remains to be seen that how long this democratic dispensation lasts under the shadows of US missile strikes and direct attacks against so-called Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants on Pakistani soil and how long the powerful Pakistani military can resist the temptation to grab the power back from the civilian facade.
The real power in Pakistan still wrests with the military and and its intelligence organs. The chief of army staff can re-wirte, amend, suspend the constitution, arrest judges and their children, rule at will for eight years and then can walk as a free man after a guard of honours at the end of a gun-point stint. Who says making a coup or violating constitution are crimes in Pakistan? God bless our country. Aameen.
[/caption]Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday took oath of the office of president of Pakistan. He could not have ever imagined to become the president, when his illustrious wife and a two time prime minister was leading the Pakistan Peoples Party. Her assassination in a bomb and suicide attack on December 27 in the city of Rawalpindi changed his fate.
The swearing in ceremony was routine, but with shouts of "Bhutto is alive" , "Long Live Bhutto" even during the national anthem playing when everyone is supposed to stand up in silence to pay respects to it.
Then the joint press conference of Mr Zardari with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was not impressive at all. It was a big mistake on part of media managers of Mr Zardari to have a joint press conference, when it was his first press conference after being sworn-in as president. The entire exercise proved futile as it eclipsed the take off of Mr Zardari. Most of the questions were related to terrorism and how the two countries were suffering.
Many whispered about American desires behind the presence of Karzai in the inaugural ceremony and the joint presser. If a neighbouring countries' head of the state was to be invited, then it was good opportunity to invite all our long-time ally China and Saudi Arabia for bailing us out of the crisis caused by rising oil prices. But both Chinese and Saudis might not like the democratic chaos at the high offices in Pakistan. Hacks said that Karzai was there as US proxy.
[caption id="attachment_346" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Karzai and Zardari leaving after joint press conference"]
[/caption]It remains to be seen that how long this democratic dispensation lasts under the shadows of US missile strikes and direct attacks against so-called Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants on Pakistani soil and how long the powerful Pakistani military can resist the temptation to grab the power back from the civilian facade.
The real power in Pakistan still wrests with the military and and its intelligence organs. The chief of army staff can re-wirte, amend, suspend the constitution, arrest judges and their children, rule at will for eight years and then can walk as a free man after a guard of honours at the end of a gun-point stint. Who says making a coup or violating constitution are crimes in Pakistan? God bless our country. Aameen.
Comments
What will present president and future president (if any) do for pakistan ????
hard for media to explain.
keep blaming, please, future is yours