 President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that if after the January 8 elections, a situation develops that is “absolutely unacceptable to me, I have a choice of leaving”.
| Like, for Gay Paree, in fact... |
The exclusive interview broadcast on the ABC morning show, Good Morning America, took place in Islamabad. The president declared, when asked if he was in a power-sharing deal with former premier Benazir Bhutto, “I am not in any deal with anyone. We are in a stage where we have to have fair elections. We have to see after the elections how things develop. If the situation develops in a manner which is absolutely unacceptable to me, I have a choice of leaving.”
| I think Perv probably started out with a power-sharing deal with Morticia. This being Pakistain, that deal had a pretty short half-life. |
West shares blame: He said the West must share blame for PakistanÂ’s current political crisis.
| I confess. It wuz me. I dunnit. Sorry. I just wasn't thinking. |
| “If there’s a failure, it’s not Pakistan’s failure.” |
“If there’s a failure, it’s not Pakistan’s failure,” recalling that after 10 years of being together in the Afghan “jihad”, the US had left Pakistan alone to deal with the aftermath.
| At which point they busied themselves creating "strategic depth." Simply brilliant. |
Osama’s fate: On Pakistan’s search for Osama Bin Laden, Musharraf refused to say what he would do with the Al Qaeda leader in case he was captured. He would not say if Pakistan would hand over Bin Laden to the US. “I think the people who need to know, know it,” he said. “And I don’t think the media is the one who needs to know.” Musharraf blamed the US for its inconsistent support over the past 30 years, saying that the US turned a blind eye to terrorism until the 9/11 attacks. “We handled the situation alone for 12 years,” he said.
| Nobody suffers like Pakistain. Nobody. |
He said, “Come hell or high water, elections would be held on January 8.” Musharraf insisted his political moves had been in reaction to the opposition’s tactics, AFP reported. “The opposition, they have all along these five years tried to destabilise me and the government. You have to understand, we don’t want agitation here... Agitation means breaking down everything, burning things. That cannot be allowed. So, therefore, if anyone is trying to do that, we will stop it. That is the way it is in Pakistan,” he told the interviewer.
| Or at least in Perv's imagined Pakistain. |
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