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Love him or hate him: Musharraf not a tyrant

Shujaat Wasty August 18, 2008

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#8 Posted by zardari on August 23, 2008 12:07:39 pm
Musharraf? Who?
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#7 Posted by tahir on August 23, 2008 4:15:00 am
http://www.defencejournal.com/2008-7/abm.asp

Don't mind the photo from the school file!
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#6 Posted by zeemax on August 23, 2008 3:47:16 am
#5 Posted by tahir,

Funniest part is that this whoever it is calls:

"the behavior of the Pakistan army resembling a foreign military in places like Wana, Waziristan with brutal killings of Pakistani villagers; demolishing mosques in Islamabad [1]; allowing the US military to bomb religious seminaries and villages and killing dozens of young students [2], farmers and labourers [3]; the massacre at Islamabad's Red Mosque; handing over countless people to be put into American secret gulags without charges or (fair) trials; letting Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan take the fall for the leaked nuclear information allegations; and his mistreatment of the Chief Justice of Pakistan are just a few key incidents that many people consider to be erroneous."

.. erroneous and mistakes.

But I see a certain Mr. IKRAMSEHGAL agrees. Not surprised at all if it's THE Mr. Ikram Sehgal.
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#5 Posted by tahir on August 23, 2008 3:19:57 am
Not a tyrant? Now you must be new at ChowQ?

Do you live in California? Do you really know where Pakistan is today? No civilian government would give the Untidy Satans such a free hand as your hero did. Bush and Blair must be so proud of their man.

If you're a man, fall in love with the right girl, and stop planting good-bye kisses on the cheek of a faded dictator.

Sleep well.
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#4 Posted by ijaz_gul on August 22, 2008 12:59:50 am
Nothing but rotheric. What did he accomplish and what he failed to? To me, just like the British Parliamentary King,
Musharraf is gone!
Long Live Musharraf!
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#3 Posted by IKRAMSEHGAL on August 21, 2008 11:13:08 pm
fair analysis
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#2 Posted by Levitate on August 21, 2008 9:53:12 pm
Only people who love mush in Pakistan are people :
1. who have some relative high up in army well fed by mush.
2. Who had some relative amongst musharaf's minions like shortcut aziz, anc ch brothers
3. Those MQMis who are blinded by asbiat (prejudice) [these ones also like altaf bhai]
4. Transvestites
5. Tabla artists and dancers
6. Prostitutes
7. gay and lesbians
8. feminists (the ugly ones)
9. Lollywood Film actors and actress
10. Brain dead low IQed retards
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#1 Posted by hurricane on August 20, 2008 4:05:02 pm
Shujaat sahib,

Through all of the turmoil, I've always said Musharraf is much better than what the chattering classes have painted him to be. Currently it's in-vogue to bash musharraf, but once the dust settles, maybe the people will rethink their positions. Maybe.

"Musharraf did not hide his secular outlook - but neither did the country's founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, whose idea was never for an Islamic state, but for a Muslim one: a country where Muslims would be in charge of the state of affairs but the population would be heterogeneous and free to practice whatever faith they adhered to."

You've eloquently defined the difference between a muslim state and an Islamic state.
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