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Arresting Musharraf while talking to the Taliban will not solve Pakistan's problems
By Rob Crilly World Last updated: August 20th, 2013

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Pervez Musharraf (right) has been charged with murder of Benazir Bhutto. (Photo: AFP/Getty)

So Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former military ruler, has been charged with the murder of Benazir Bhutto. And in so doing the country's judicial system and investigators have reminded us of their myopia, unable to come to terms with the real threat facing the country and intent instead on chasing shadows.

Here are the facts we can agree on: Mrs Bhutto, two-time prime minister of Pakistan, was killed in December 2007 as she left a campaign rally. Pervez Musharraf was president at the time.

Almost everything else is in dispute.

Scotland Yard detectives called in to help with the murder concluded Mrs Bhutto had died from severe head injuries caused by a bomb blast – but their findings were rejected by many of Mrs Bhutto's supporters who claimed there were multiple attackers and that she died from gun shot wounds.

The clues that might have helped piece together what happened were hosed away in the aftermath of the attack. Cock-up or cover-up?

And communications intercepts, which seemed to catch the then head of the Pakistan Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, discussing "a tremendous effort" are routinely dismissed as part of a conspiracy to protect the real culprits.

Two police officers and five alleged Taliban militants have been charged over Mrs Bhutto's death, but none has yet been brought to trial.

And that's the way it might have stayed.

Although a United Nations investigation accused the government of negligence and of failing to offer adequate protection to Mrs Bhutto , there had never been a concerted attempt to bring Mr Musharraf to justice. Until two years ago, that is, when he announced his attention to return from self-imposed exile to Pakistan in order to fight elections this year. That's when it all changed.

No new evidence has come to light. There's no smoking gun. No suggestion he deliberately undercooked security on the day. No record of phone calls ordering the site be hosed down.

The case looks more and more political, particularly when you consider that Mr Musharraf finds himself in a country led by Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister he ousted in a coup in 1999, and where the chief justice is still Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the man who did more than anyone to end the military strongman's time in power

Meanwhile, Mr Sharif is talking up the prospect of peace talks with the Pakistan Taliban – the very people who almost certainly were responsible for Mrs Bhutto's murder.

The indictment of Mr Musharraf on these charges is also an indictment of a failing judicial system, in a country that lacks the capacity to properly investigate the murder of a former prime minister, let alone any of the almost daily terrorist attacks.

Locking up Mr Musharraf – a staunch ally of the West in the aftermath of 9/11 – while talking to the Taliban is no answer to Pakistan's problems.

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now we will see terrorists bieng placed judges, wt thier will..?
MR, haroon rashid, is just following his mullha masters, cowardness which he has showen wearing burqa to, get away durring opreation?
& surly, captian asif should be questioned, how he got direct oders from, COAS to kill the, jahil & terrorists mullana jee, who said in 1000 interviews durring conflict, that he is not going to surrender?
so, much of fake trials?
let see what its going to bring in the end?
gusss, every 3 rd grade judge, is dreaming to become CJ, these days by pushing fake trails against the most patriotic of its citizens, just to make happpy his dear NOORA,s in power?
:eek::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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when ZARDARI was president NAWAZ SHARIF,s party was the main opposition party in NA, who never questioned him?
also PMLn , supporting character was wide open in supporting blackwater opreative RAMOND DAVIS , s role in lahore?
but no one points any finger towards them selves?
they all, just pass thier times & blame others, thats what they call politics?
the damocrazy?
 
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when ZARDARI was president NAWAZ SHARIF,s party was the main opposition party in NA, who never questioned him?
also PMLn , supporting character was wide open in supporting blackwater opreative RAMOND DAVIS , s role in lahore?
but no one points any finger towards them selves?
they all, just pass thier times & blame others, thats what they call politics?
the damocrazy?

When Dr. Qadri invited opposition parties to topple Zardari, and objected the illegal formulation of election commissioning, there was no opposition to Zardari.
 
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i think, JI,s role in supporting TTp terrorists is already wide open?
thier peoples supported, entertained the the whole DAM ALQAEADA, after 9/11 &nwhen it all was happening they were sitting with the same MUSAHARF with the keys of KPK province in MMA,s hand?
that time mr, rashid may be to young to understand all that?lolzzz
JI,s anti pakistan role, begains before the creation of pakistan, thats why they never get elected by the poeples of pakistan?
 
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