Things in Pakistan are moving in right direction.It is a new country with intelligent educated class, will finally find the right solution for the country.

What’s coming up sounds somewhat like the recent Turkish elections. A Moslem conservative (Sharif) vs a moderate (Ms. Bhutto) but the military not quite in the background (Musharraf). Benazir Bhutto was in exile over corruption charges and Nawaz Sharif was also in exile over taxation charges. Musharraf has been playing the military game since Zia Ul Haq grabbed power from Ms. Bhutto’s father.

Ms. Bhutto, whose father was also a prime minister, was in power before Sharif. http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P024&Pg=3  and http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A080&Pg=2

“According to the PPP chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto, President General Pervez Musharraf should consider amnesty for all politicians as a “confidence-building measure”. This may be her way of gaining leverage in her dialogue with President Musharraf, but it is clearly a realistic option in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Mr Nawaz Sharif permission to return to Pakistan…” http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20078\24\story_24-8-2007_pg3_1

Ses links on left at http://www.storyofpakistan.com/ for more detail. Note the missiles in the background in this picture of Sharif when in power a decade ago http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P027&Pg=3

By the way, I cam across this fun interactive “Cartoon Qaida”  animated multimedia clip at http://www.jintech.com/Pages/MMProductsCQ.html and there is an audio download as well.