{"id":194899,"date":"2008-08-10T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/10\/put-a-fork-in-pervez-musharraf-he-is-done\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T23:55:00","slug":"put-a-fork-in-pervez-musharraf-he-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/10\/put-a-fork-in-pervez-musharraf-he-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Put a Fork in Pervez Musharraf  He is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a 2\/3 vote of Parliament necessary to impeach Musharraf, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/46d75b94-66ed-11dd-808f-0000779fd18c.html\">Siddique-ul-Farooq, a leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party says the count is above 300 parliamentarians out of 440<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more members of the PML-Q, Musharraf&#8217;s principal allies in the parliament are <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iHdw_bqLq3pybiv4Eb54KVDu_1NQ\">publicly calling for his resignation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the head of the military, has privately ruled out a coup, he&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p>He has allowed the Taliban and al Qaeda to run roughshod over the tribal areas and Afghanistan, because like many in the Pakistani military establishment, he cannot see past a war with India, so I think that his exit will be a good thing for the US too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a 2\/3 vote of Parliament necessary to impeach Musharraf, Siddique-ul-Farooq, a leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party says the count is above 300 parliamentarians out of 440. What&#8217;s more members of the PML-Q, Musharraf&#8217;s principal allies in the parliament are publicly calling for his resignation. Given that the head of the military, has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}