Posted by: zanshin, 2007-11-05 02:45

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Date: 2007-11-03 (Saturday)
Those who support the Taliban and oppose me continue to have high positions in government. Musharraf doesn’t remove them nor has he kept any of the promises he made guaranteed by third parties. Yesterday (before Musharraf’s state of emergency), television channels broadcast a meeting in Bajaur (one of the seven tribal agencies that border Afghanistan) by a mullah claiming that he and his group will kill me in Rawalpindi (where she was scheduled to attend a PPP rally, now banned).
fact that militants hold open meetings without fear of retaliation proves the Musharraf regime is totally inept, unwilling or colluding in their expansion.
Our rapprochement talks with Musharraf have foundered in the quicksand of his failing promises. There is no move toward democracy. It’s either back to dictatorship (1999) or back to a rigged election (2002). Or Musharraf is replaced with a pliant interim government for two years run from behind the scene by the same military hardliners. They claim in 2 years they can push NATO out of Afghanistan and replace president (Hamid) Karzai with one of their own betting that the U.S. will be caught up in presidential elections for one year and it will take another year for the new administration to settle in.
The situation is grim, the risks are high, but I have faith in the people to turn around the problem if we can get a real election.”
-- Benazir Bhutto, in an e-mail






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