Impeaching Musharraf
August 11th, 2008 by Sarah
An editorial in the International Herald Tribune warns that there are no easy fixes for Pakistan’s civilian government. It recommends that the U.S. “resist any attempt to intervene” as the new government attempts to impeach Pervez Musharraf, and that the U.S. along with Pakistan’s army and civilian government must “work together to build a more effective democratic governance, and economic future, and a coordinated plan for routing the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Najam Sethi in the Wall Street Journal agrees that the U.S. “cannot be too sanguine about this continuing political instability. Their core interests require Pakistan’s civilian leadership to lean on the Pakistan army to rein in and retool the ISI, support the war on terror in Afghanistan, and refrain from refueling Islamist jihad in India-administered Kashmir.”
Anwar Iqbal at Dawn reports, however, on statements by the State Department to remain neutral on the subject.
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