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India-Pakistan
Pak Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar resigns
2002-06-07
Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said on Friday he had resigned from his post on health grounds. "I have offered resignation on medical grounds. My health does not permit me to fulfil the responsibilities," English-language daily The Nation quoted him as saying. Sattar confirmed the report. The Nation quoted Sattar as saying it was up to President Pervez Musharraf to accept or reject his resignation. "However as soon as the President accepts the resignation, I will quit my job," he was quoted as saying.
Poor guy quit for health reasons. He was sick of it.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  Maybe true. There are plenty of bad precedents contrarywise however, of how a head of state kicks out a likeable fellow and replaces him with his wartime Foreign Minister. Stalin replacing Maxim Litvinov with Vyacheslav Molotov is perhaps the most famous of these sequences.
Posted by: Tom Roberts   2002-06-07 14:00:17  

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