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What if Musharraf is
Re-elected?
 It
is important to know what is at stake if general Musharraf is
elected through outgoing or incoming assemblies with or without
uniform.
Right now, Pakistan is divided into two
political forces: Pro constitution, pro rule of law and pro
democracy and anti constitution, anti rule of law and anti
democracy forces.
General Musharraf represents anti
constitution, anti rule of law and anti democracy forces. These
forces, headed by general Musharraf, want to maintain their
control over state of Pakistan by all means. It is not important
how they maintain this control. For them, sanctity of process is
not important only results, favorable to them, are important.
These forces, again headed by general
Musharraf, have violated all legal, moral, principled stances to
reach where they are. They want to again violate all legal,
moral and principled stances to stay where they are for another
five years.
General Musharraf started this immoral
process two years ago by openly addressing political rallies,
meeting members of parliament in parliament chamber, at ISI
headquarters, and President House. He used last illegal, immoral
and unprincipled tactic by using Election Commission to change
election rules of 1988 in which he declared himself above
article 63 of the constitution of Pakistan.
His all these illegal, immoral, unprincipled
actions simply reflect one thing that general Musharraf wants to
remain in power at every cost.
Now, coming to the question what if he is
re-elected by outgoing or incoming assemblies with or without
uniform.
Here is what is going to happen in Pakistan
under general Musharraf if he is re-elected.
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1) War
on innocent civilians which he calls war on terrorists or
extremists will continue, killing hundreds of thousands of
more innocent civilians across Pakistan
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2) As
state violence will grow against innocent civilians, there
will be more suicide bombings on army and civilian targets.
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3) Violence
against dissenting journalists, political activists and
workers will continue.
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4) Number
of suicides will increase, because gap between rich and poor
will widen and commodities of common goods will become more
out of reach of common people.
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5) As
criminal elements are part of the Musharraf set-up, organized
crime will grow in Pakistan.
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6) As
general Musharraf’s propagandists will continue their against
the fact propaganda about success of general Musharraf’s
policies, anger will grow in Pakistan masses which will
manifest in great social unrest, lawlessness and anarchy.
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7) As
most of various cartel members are part of general Musharraf’s
set-up, people will face more ATTA and Cheeni type crisis
whereas, these cartel members will go scot-free.
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8) Foreign
intervention will further increase in Pakistan. Pakistani
cities will become vulnerable to foreign military attacks.
These foreign attacks will continue without any response from
Pakistan Armed Forces, because armed forces under general
Musharraf will not be allowed to respond these attacks.
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9) Two
or three more states may emerge within Pakistan which will
eventually lead to dismemberment of Pakistan.
Can general Musharraf be stopped from
re-election? Yes, Supreme Court may stop general Musharraf by
declaring him constitutionally unfit to run as President.
Opposition parties may resign from provincial and national
assemblies to break the Electoral College forcing Musharraf to
wait for next assemblies. Instead of resigning, opposition
parties may bring up a powerful common candidate to oppose
Musharraf in Electoral College. There are many PML (Q)
disgruntled candidates who will vote for the common opposition
candidate if opposition chooses to do so. Then, Musharraf will
have to deal with a real President. This President will not be
Rafiq Tarrar. This President will have the support of the people
like Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
Nothing is final in politics. Things may
change tomorrow or they may be different than they appear today.
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