Pakistan: Let’s See Who Calls The Shots…

As President Prevez Musharraf was swearing in newly-elected Yousaf Raza Gilani as Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Tuesday, there came trooping in at Islamabad the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, and Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher, who straightaway began talks with former premier Nawaz Sharif. Later, they visited Musharraf at the presidential palace. The U.S. Embassy declined to say who else the envoys would meet.

Perhaps sending a clear message to all and sundry as to who calls the shots in Pakistan!!! Zaffar Abbas, an editor with Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, said the visit was badly timed. “Their presence on the day when the new prime minister was inducted would signal to both Islamic extremists and moderates that ‘here are the Americans, right here in Islamabad, meeting with senior politicians in the new government, trying to dictate terms’,” Abbas said. More here…

Bush and diplomacy…you must be joking!!!