Adil Najam
Since yesterday the “I” word – impeachment – has begun to be thrown around a lot.
Some quarters seem to think that it just happen this time. Others suggest that it is more talk than action and the numbers needed to pull this are still not there.
Coming out of the “critical” Nawaz Sharif-Asif Zardari meetings one keeps wondering how much of this is an effort to keep the coalition going and how much is a real push to change the essential political equations of Pakistan. There are reports that Gen. Musharraf is taking this move seriously enough to cancel his trip to China (to attend the Olympics opening ceremony). On the other hand some of Gen. Musharraf’s supporters are claiming that no such cancellation has happened. We do know, however, that he is taking this challenge seriously and lining up his supporters.
All in all, there is too much noise to say what is happening. But something is clearly happening. Does the PPP-PML(N) have the numbers they need to go ahead? Does the President have the numbers he needs to stop it? And what of all the external actors and where they may lean, why and for what?
Interestingly, we had run a ATP Poll back in June asking you what you thought would have happened to Gen. Musharraf by October 2008? The majority (38%) had thought that he would be impeached by then. A significant number (31%) thought that by October 2008 we woudl be still muddling through as we are now.
We do not intend to open the Poll again, but it does seem that either of those two answers could turn out to be true again. Indeed, even our earlier Poll on the subject, from October 2007, may still be relevant in its results!
So, since we can’t make full sense of exactly what all of this adds up to, we thought we woudl ask our best source: You. What do you think? What is happening? What might happen? And why?
why did Nawaz Sharif choose to go to america and bow down to clinton in the Kargil war? Was it because he wanted to protect his riches (i.e. suger mills, raiwand estate, model town house, industries etc) if incase war broke out on the borders? Where is the audit for the qarz utaro mulk sawaroon scheme? Where is that money? Why was rehmat shah afridi jailed and who else is involved apart from the sharifs and the anf high ups which he mentions? After nuclear tests and before the freezing of foreign currency accounts why did nawaz sharifs close relatives allowed to withdraw over 200 million dollars? All those land allotments he and his cronnies like ishaq dar and ahsan iqbal have made to close friends and relatives. What about this? The second richest person in Pakistan who hardly pays any taxes. What the hell is this? And these slimy, corrupt persons will impeach the president. Nawaz sharif and his croniess including zardari and his friends must be get rid of. They must put in jail forever.
Critical problems facing Pakistan today:
1) Security & Safety.
2) Economy.
3) Unemployment.
4) Health.
5) Education.
Solutions available:
1) get rid of MULLAH
2) get rid of SARMAYADAR
3) get rid of JAGIRDAR
Of course things don’t change from one day to the next but my point is if ANYONE or ANY MOVEMENT or ANY ORGANIZATION or ANY PARTY sharing any of these (MULLAH, SARMAYADAR and JAGIRDAR), at any level or degree forget about any change and any good!!!
The modern day mir jaffar mir sadiq=mian sharif mian zardari
Critical problems facing Pakistan today:
1) Security & Safety.
2) Economy.
3) Unemployment.
4) Health.
5) Education.
Solutions available:
1) Impeach the President.
2) Restore CI.
Another stupid distraction from a brainless government that has no idea what to do.