Few thoughts on developments in Pakistan.
So president Musharraf finally buckled under government’s pressure and resigned in televised swan song which ended with appropriate farewell "Bye-Bye Pakistan". Yet another Bush’s foreign policy failure – after 9 years in power and siphoning tens of blns of dollars of American aid, Mr Osama bin Laden is still free and roams somewhere in this South Asian country.
Mush’s peaceful exit should not come as a total surprise to anybody as Pakistani army apparently refused to entertain his desire to dissolve parliament and impose president’s rule.
What questions now raised in the region?
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