Telegraph: Rob Crilly: One man in Pakistan would have watched last Saturday’s election results come rolling with more alarm than anyone else. Pervez Musharraf was the general who cut short Nawaz Sharif’s second term in office by seizing control of the country and arresting the prime minister.
How the tables have turned. Now Mr Musharraf is under house arrest, confined to two rooms of his smart villa just outside Islamabad, and his old foe Mr Sharif is preparing to move back into Prime Minister’s House for a third term. Things could not have turned out much worse for the former military ruler.
But quietly, behind the scenes, it looks as if the stage is being set for Mr Musharraf to make a rapid departure. Informed commentators whisper that his old pals in the military are reaching out to the courts – where the 69-year-old faces a slew of cases – preparing the ground so he can leave before Mr Sharif is sworn in.
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I don’t know, but I feel we should respect ‘retired people’. Once we cheered them (or their ‘chair’) and then we ignore them. – Let the guy go into retirement…
Do not worry. Three and half hour meeting of Army Chief with to be PM of Pakistan has already cleared his way out from Pakistan.
You mean under similar type of agreement like Nawaz Sharif’s exile to Saudi, tit for tat