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EFSAS comments on Gen. Musharraf & Nawaz, and Iran's outreach to India

 

Musharraf had boasted at a press conference in Dubai in February 2019 that Half of the present ministers are mine. The law minister and the attorney general were my lawyers”. The usage of possessive pronouns by Musharraf was telling. While these long ties and the accompanying feudalistic loyalties did play a part, the overwhelming pressure that got the government to act with the urgency and forcefulness on the issue that it displayed was the unequivocal expectation of the military establishment that the government would act exactly in the way that it eventually did. Or else there were several other pliable and eager leaders and their parties waiting in the wings.

 

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