Thursday, November 1, 2007

Musharraf faces up to an emergency

By Syed Saleem Shahzad
Asia Times

"The security situation in Pakistan is becoming so critical that President General Pervez Musharraf has to decide whether to continue with a low-intensity - and losing - war against militancy in the tribal areas, or vastly increase the scale of military operations, as the United States is insisting. Some are now suggesting that Musharraf needs "emergency" - ie, dictatorial - powers to properly wage his part of the "war on terror", and democracy be damned....."

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