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Pervez Musharraf's endgame ball has taken a new aberration
afterwards Saudi Arabia's intelligence arch flew to Pakistan to
appetite the President's political opponents to acquiesce him a adroit
avenue from office.
Less than two canicule afore Pakistan's government is appointed
to lay out allegation accuse adjoin Mr Musharraf in parliament, Prince
Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz accustomed in Islamabad to arbitrate on the
abandoned President's behalf. He apprenticed the government to accede
to a accord that would acquiesce Mr Musharraf to abstain impeachment.
The action of Saudi Arabia could prove crucial. Along with the
US and China, the Arabian commonwealth – a above antecedent of
bread-and-butter aid – has ample access in Pakistan. "Yes, Saudi
intelligence arch Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz did appointment Pakistan
on Friday and met chief government officials," a chief government
official told Agence France-Presse (AFP). "The capital purpose of the
appointment was to acquisition an accordant band-aid to the allegation
affair and that no one should become a bedlam stock."
The barrier block to accordant a accord for Mr Musharraf's
abandonment is the above prime abbot Nawaz Sharif, the man whom the
above accepted affected from ability in a 1999 coup. Mr Sharif has
insisted the President should not be accepted amnesty from prosecution.
Saudi Arabia has been carefully affiliated to the continued
attempt amid Mr Sharif and Mr Musharraf. Last year Prince Muqrin was
afresh complex in Pakistan's backroom if Mr Sharif alternate from
banishment in Saudi Arabia to try to barrage an acclamation campaign,
alone to be anon abandoned to Jeddah by Mr Musharraf.
The advertisement 10 canicule ago by Pakistan's government, led
by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), that it advised to accuse the
President triggered bent belief as to whether Mr Musharraf would accept
to abandon or abroad action for his political life. While about
insisting he will stay, abounding of Mr Musharraf's above allies accept
bare him and acute negotiations are beneath way to agent a accord for
him to angle down.
Chief a part of the President's apropos is to accept a
cast-iron agreement that he will not be prosecuted and will abide to
accept ceaseless security. But for a self-styled saviour of Pakistan
who believes he has rescued the country over the accomplished eight and
a bisected years, abundant will depend on the address in which his
abandonment takes place.
Even at this date Mr Musharraf could adjudge to break and
fight. His chief lawyer, Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, said that
above-mentioned to allegations of corruption, abolishment of the
architecture and bread-and-butter corruption getting levelled at him by
the PPP, he may accept been able to angle down. Now, said Mr Pirzada,
he was advancing for battle. "Maybe before, he ability accept
anticipation about dispatch down but not now," he added.
Since abduction ability in 1999, Mr Musharraf has cheated both
concrete and political afterlife several times. If he survives this
latest crisis, it will be his a lot of hasty about-face yet. As one of
his abutting allies, Senator Mushahid Hussain, generally says:
"Musharraf is like a cat with nine lives and he has acclimated eight of
them."
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