i will try to give my answers point by point.
Here I just want to give my views regarding why Musharaf rule in Pakistan..... in contrast to a military coup of Gen.Ayub and Gen.Zia. Also a country whose literacy rate is just 43% don't know whom to give votes especially the people in our rural areas which comprises a big chunk of Pakistan population resulting in advantage of feudal leaders(Sardars, Jeghidars,Chaudris) who continue to rule them. Thus, the expanding involvement of the armed forces in the national mainstream brings into focus the role of the military in a democracy.
first of all 43% litracy rate, what does it mean, i emans those who can read/write, it doesnt mean educated or metric Pass, i think metric pass rate will will be around 18%.
secondly, so if Army wants to stay in power then what they will going to do, donot increase the litracy rate.
third, Musharraf's allys are from (Sardars, Jeghidars,Chaudris) this section of cmmunity as well, infact without no doubt he has all the dirt f the parties, because honestly all people who are with him are either "Maffad Prust" or "Corrupt", why Ch's are with him, they didnt leave the Nawaz on some national issue, the only issue between Mian's and Ch's was the power, they wanted from Mian's to give them their power share, which they didnt gice so they took it from Musharraf.
General Pervaz Musharaf took control of Pakistan in a bloodless coup on 12 Oct 1999 kicking PM Nawaz Sharif and put him on house arrest.
BloodLess coup is not credit of the MMusharaf, this all credit goes to our Army, for whom Constitutiona and Selection parliment is nothing, tell me on what grounds Musharaf took over, there was no national interest, as Nawaz tried to fire him, so in return he fired him he has the real power so he succed, this is the end of story, tell me why musharraf didnt decide to do the coup before this incident.
This act of Musharaf was a direct result of Nawaz's order of exit from Kargil hills in IOK(Indian Occupied Kashmir) where for the first time Pakistan military under Musharaf govern penetrated deep inside IOK. Pakistan armed forces received severe lost during the operation and than asking them to halt back was simply demoralizing and a major setback which made Nawaz very unpopular among the Army and military bureaucracy. Nawaz was actually in no where position ,he claimed that he never knew that army is secretly conducting an operation in IOK which sounds quite strange and funny being a head of the state.
This above Kargil story is nothing but lies or one side of story, if Nawaz was so powerful PM then how can this COAS decided to do a coup. Nawaz is lying as wel, he was aware of the war, but this withdrawal was not the single decision, infact the failed operation in Kargil shows the incapbilities of our then COAS and that is why he gave more then 400 medals to the 1500 Deads. one meda per three persons, just to make Army quite, and even then he is claiming in his book, that Kargil has given some boost etc to the army. he has said in the book due t kargil only India decided to come on table. why people (both) only try to take credit only.
Country at that time was in a deep hole of economic downfall .Musharaf faced those challenges successfully and announced many economic reforms and made some hardcore Generals a head of big institutions like Steel Mills ,Railways etc since it was a demand of a corrupt free and hard ruler .Another big move of him at that time was improvement of our education system which has now giving results and surely it was lacking in 10 years of so called democratic rule of Bibi and Nawaz. Than came his Agra visit for Kashmir where he never stepped back over Kashmir Issue which was an astonishing for India especially as they were thinking that demoralized( in Indian eyes) Army will hold back from nowonwards.
If you are thinking that Musharaf is still on the same track towards Kashmir resoulution as Pakistan was before coup, then you are only one blind follower, which known as etremist, sorry to say.
The major turning point was 9-11 incident which brought Musharaf in a spot light both in Pakistan and outside world. US who was acting like a injured lion and about to hit back under cow boy Bush asked Musharaf to consider two options only either with them or not. It was one of the biggest and damn important decision which Musharaf had to make. Keeping in mind going with US will ultimately means giving up Taliban support and having unrest in Pakistan i.e rise of extremists as Talibans here in Pakistan do enjoyed quite a support. But he went with US against the will of many Pakistanis(the extremist wing).
Not the extremist wing, against the will of majority, brother every one has a right to decide his wn heors, but blindly following is not a good thing, one should accept the wrong as well, he did this just for his seat, fr power, he let down all Paksitani nation, and this is the third time Army had let down the whole nation, 9/11 was inside job there are no doubts in the world about it.
Not only that he soon realized that the mind set of people here to be change and frankly religious intolerance and fake Jihad has given a huge dent to Pakistan internally and externally and he was dead right when he said that Pakistan faces real danger from extremism . He ordered action against Talibans and pro Talib elements in Pakistan through out Pakistan especially in our northern areas and which is continuing till now as well making him unpopular among many fundamental Pakistanis labeling him as US puppet which is really I cant comprehend. These people forget to analyze the current world order and have labeled west as a satan in advance. Musharaf made further reforms and asked Pakistanis to get moderate and give up religious extremism by introducing a new term enlighten moderation . This term has actually made many Pakistanis confused and calling it as unislamic or secularism of Islam .lol. They forget that fact that enlighten moderation is nothing than "Ijtihad" which Islam highly demand but guess what this illiteracy rate is now really hurting Pakistan but anyways things now are in the right direction .thanks to Musharaf. I will discuss about enlighten moderation more in my next article inshallah and try to remove its misconception among various wings of
people.
ijtihaad means explantion/expension of things, but not to cntradict the things, brother nothing needed to be said on this issue, this moderation has give only the Fihasshi to this country, he is trying to make this country sex-free country. Do yu know in USA more then 40 tribes dont rcognize USA laws, and USA acknowledgs them as well, If he was right to fight agaisnt taliba that time in waziristaan then why he tried to get into some pect woth them, if talibaan were wrong at that time, then why Karzai asked them to join him, why Karzai announced un-conditional forgiveness to them.
Another brave step of Musharaf was eliminating Bhugtti and his fascist men. Bhugtti who was threatening Pakistan sovereignty with the help of anti-Pakistan elements rightly got nipped by the Army .Its quite astonishing to know that how much previous Govts ignored this blackmailer and later these same parties were suppporting tyrant Bhugtti during operation. Really now I have figured it out that these all political parties(PPP, PML etc) are good for nothing and don't have any balls to make a bold step even when country's sovereignty is being challenged But not the case with brave Musharaf.
yes, if killing bugti was in the interest of the Pakistan then it is goos, hen why he is not tking ther bold steps, why he is not kiiling Altaf Hussain, why other same kind of leaders are allowed to divide people or to threten Pakistan's sovereignty , only becasue they are his allies.
Musharaf further announced landmark projects in Balouchistan(ignored province) like Gawader Port . He also announced project of big water dams ..and vows to built the most controversial dam of Pakistan the Kalabagh Dam. Again its only Musharaf who can do it.
are you sure, he was the one who started this Gawadar project, and yes we all can see how much he kept or Kala-bagh Dam, if he really is true Paksitani, then he would have tken bold step of Kala-bagh dam as well, like he did fr bugti, when ever his fathers (americans) asked him, he never goes for consensus, he alwasy decided at its own, but when ever it comes to Paksitan's interest, he nedds consensus, what a well wisher he is to Paksitan. i can bet, he will never going to built this Dam, and may be others as well, only a true Paksitani will come and will build this dam.
In economic sector Musharraf era is considered as a golden era of the country which has witnessed remarkable growth. It is the first time in the history of Pakistan that government is going to complete its term. Investment target has surpassed $5 billion and stock market has crossed psychological barrier of 12000 points. KSE 100-index is the most stable and buoyant market in Asia. Poverty graph has dropped by 11 percent and unemployment ratio has declined from 9 percent to 7 percent. It has posted 2 percent decrease. The foreign exchange reserves have swelled from $800 billion to $1200 billion. The exports have reached the mark of $17 billion. These will touch the level of $18.6 billion by the end of fiscal year 2006-7. Media is growing in Pakistan again thanks to him even his staunchest critic of him now freely can bark against him.
ask some economist about these figures, he will tell you better, in last five years ou debts have been increased by 50%, in 1998-99 the total debts were aound 2000Billion, and now they are 3700Billion, despite the fact that he is not paying many installments as the loan have been rescheduled, despite the fact that he sold Govt's best assets for 300 bilion anoher additional income, despite the fact that he got enourmous amount money for so-called war on terror.
Exprots didnt reach the target as well, although this gvernemnt is completing its five years and Musharraf is compeleting his 8 years, which means continuty in policies, but even if they have the contiuty and they cant acchieve the targets then this is pothetic, ask some neutral econmist he will tell u the real picture.
and this KSE story, this is very funny, they changed the structure and company lsits of KSE, KSE works on the basis of few companies status, they added mroe banks and insuarnce companies in the list, and banks and insurance companies are two industries for them down fall risk is almost zero, this is very long debate.. they all are menting money in stock market.
In the end I want to conclude by saying that no one is perfect out here .We cant expect everything from him that he will change Pakistan over night .We criticize him by labeling him American puppet forgetting that facts that did he sent Pakistan troops to Iraq or hand over Dr Abdul Qadir to American interrogators despite of demand from US Govts all the time .
what ever is happening to Dr Qadir is all due to him, he knows e cant give Dr Qadir to America, not because he is afraid of people but because Dr Qadir can nominate many persons including him to US media, but the life our national hero is living is all due to him, and u even trying to take credit from this as well, LOL
Is he allowing US forces to operate inside Pakistan which is itching to cross the border any time?.
Who attacked mudrassa in bajjor?, why Air vice Marshel's plane crashed, who was the traitor who gave more then 700 pakistanis to Americans...
Why Would american polish their shoes, when we have there boot polish man here.