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Pakistan Election: Musharraf’s cynical election victory:
The Star.com, Oct 10, 2007 04:30 AM: Gen. Pervez Musharraf's "election" last weekend as Pakistan's president was a perversion of democracy. The vote was not really a vote since, knowing how badly the deck was stacked, the opposition parties refused to participate. The results must be certified by the Supreme Court, which must decide whether Musharraf was even eligible to run while still in uniform. We hope the court will rule fairly and independently – and that Musharraf's enablers in Washington will make clear that he must respect that decision and finally start moving his country toward the rule of law. Returning Pakistan to civilian government has been a declared goal of the United States since Musharraf seized power in 1999. Time and again he has promised that he would resign his post as chief of army staff and take off the uniform, but even now he is playing cute about when – and whether – that might happen. He has used his power vindictively and squandered his popular support by forcing rivals into exile and by harassing and intimidating journalists, judges and anyone who has tried to stand up to him. Almost all of the time, President George Bush has acquiesced in Musharraf's many misdeeds – and provided billions in U.S. aid – as payment for the general's service in the war on terrorism. Musharraf's backroom deal with Benazir Bhutto – encouraged by Washington – is his latest attempt to stay in office. Under the deal, the flawed former prime minister and leader of Pakistan's most popular party gets to return home, escape prosecution on corruption charges and – if all goes according to plan – stand for another term. And Musharraf gets to claim to the Pakistani people and Washington that he's moving toward civilian rule. Rather than encourage such cynical deal-making, Bush should have encouraged a more-inclusive election process true to his democratic principles and true to what so many Pakistanis want. If Pakistan's Supreme Court rules that Musharraf is ineligible to be president, he must step down and allow what didn't happen this weekend – a real free vote. If the court rules for him, then he must finally take off his uniform. He must ensure that parliamentary elections due early next year are free and fair, and he must finally lead his country in a credible transition from military to civilian democratic rule. Washington
has to make clear that its days of buying time for Musharraf
are over.
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