In the Line of Fire: Are Things Getting too Hot for Musharraf?
By Katharine Adeney
7 Jun 2007
The events in Pakistan since the dismissal of the Chief Justice in March on unspecified charges of corruption (allegedly relating to the procurement of a top police job for his son) have been fascinating to observe. It is all too easy to sit back from a distance and wonder, as some have done, as to how Musharraf could have been so badly advised? But Musharraf ’s decision has to be contextualized; it was a calculated move to rid himself of a troublesome opponent.
7 Jun 2007
The events in Pakistan since the dismissal of the Chief Justice in March on unspecified charges of corruption (allegedly relating to the procurement of a top police job for his son) have been fascinating to observe. It is all too easy to sit back from a distance and wonder, as some have done, as to how Musharraf could have been so badly advised? But Musharraf ’s decision has to be contextualized; it was a calculated move to rid himself of a troublesome opponent.
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