MB Civic

By Thomas Pickering, Carla Hills & Morton Abramowitz | Nov. 13, 2007 | The Washington Post

“…Today, the alternative to Musharraf’s military rule is not a mob of radical Islamists — this is not Iran in the 1970s. The alternative, as in the Philippines, is a moderate, secular political opposition organized into political parties. Both the Pakistan People’s Party under Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League under Nawaz Sharif are opposed to the jihadi movements. They have publicly committed themselves to combating not only al-Qaeda but also the political and military leadership of the Taliban living in Pakistan, a point on which Musharraf has been notably reluctant to act….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/12/AR2007111201417_pf.html