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Pak Army will play decisive role in country's current chaos: Analysts | There may not be any indications from the Pakistan Army about its future plans amidst the country's fresh political crisis, but analysts believe that the armed forces is only pretending to be out of the chaos and that it would play a defining role in the days to come. While President Asif Ali Zardari has
made it clear that he would not succumb to the opposition's pressure to resign
and face the challenges, noted journalist Najam Sethi pointed that the President
has got no moral right to remain in power, and stressed that the military would
sooner or later step in. "It seems to me that Zardari's administration has lost
its moral authority to govern. Power is slipping away. People are looking instead
towards the Chief Justice. ... The military is pretending to be out of it but
the military will have a very decisive say in everything," The Globe and Mail
quoted Sethi, as saying. The crisis in the troubled country deepened further on
Friday, when the National Accountability Bureau, Pakistan's official anti-corruption
watchdog, issued an arrest warrant against Interior Minister Rehman Malik on corruption
charges, which were levelled more than a decade back. The chaos continued when
Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar and a team of delegates accompanying him were barred
from boarding a flight to China by officials of the Federal Investigation Agency
(FIA). Later, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani suspended Interior Secretary Qamaruz
Zaman Chaudhry for the instance. Asma Jahangir, chairwoman of the Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan feared that the country seemed to be sliding towards yet
another coup. "The issue is whether the (democratic) system is going to pack up
again," Jahangir questioned. The Supreme Court, she said, would not have been
so bold as to overturn the controversial amnesty law unless it felt confident
of backing. Pakistan's traditional power centre is the army, which has ruled the
country for most of its existence, Jehangir pointed out. |
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