[NYTr] Bhutto Calls for Musharraf to Step Down; She's Back Under House Arrest

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Informed Comment - Nov 13, 2007
http://www.juancole.com/2007/11/bhutto-calls-for-musharraf-to-step-down.html


Bhutto Calls for Musharraf to Step down,
Again Put under House Arrest

by Juan Cole

Opposition politician Benazir Bhutto has called for Gen. Pervez
Musharraf to resign as president of Pakistan, and says she will never
serve as prime minister under him. He put her back under house arrest
on Tuesday.

My guess is that Benazir Bhutto will now be deported by Musharraf. He
only let her back into the country under pressure from Secretary of
State Condi Rice in the first place because she made a deal to cohabit
with him politically.

However annoyed the Bush administration may be with Musharraf for
letting the veil of 'democracy' drop and revealing clearly what a
dictator he is, I can't imagine Washington backing Ms. Bhutto against
the Pakistani military!

More on Pakistan and Afghanistan at the Global Affairs blog from Manan
Ahmed and Barnett Rubin. See: http://icga.blogspot.com/