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Kayani's warning: Is it time for a coup in Pakistan?
A lot of people are speculating a Kakar-like coup of the early 90s, when Nawaz Sharif and Ghulam Ishaq Khan kept dueling. The Army intervened, threw them both off the stage.
Kiyani won't come into power, but he'll hold fresh elections. People are giving this present government just 15 more days!
PAKISTAN ARMY chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's warning to President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday (March 9) to set the house in order has once again raised the spectacle of an army coup in the neighbouring country.
Highly placed sources said that the Pak general is reported to have asked Zardari to clean up the mess in the country soon. He is also believed to have told him to resolve the political issues plaguing the country particularly the reinstatement of judges before March 16.
Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and the lawyers are going on a protest on that day demanding the reinstatement of judges removed by former President Pervez Musharraf.
Kayani's warning, sources said, comes in the wake of intense pressure put in by United States, which has asked the Pakistani army to control the situation in North Western Frontier Province.
Meanwhile, Kayani's warning has sent the strategic and political circles into a spin as not many believe in Zardari's ability to manage the situation. Pakistan is standing on the brink of disaster as two major political parties, PML (N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) cadres are fighting it out on the street.
Terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Taliban are challenging the might of the government throughout the country. Pakistan army has been forced many times in the recent past to call for peace and ceasefire, not only due to lack of strength but also due to the fact that its cadres are opposed ideologically to fight against brother Muslims.
The brazen attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in heart of Lahore also tells of the deteriorating law and order situation in the entire country.
Whether this attack was orchestrated by terrorists or by an external agency is debatable, but it sent across the message that no one is safe in that country.
Kayani's warning does not augur well for the nascent democratic government being lead by PPP chief. It seems that army generals as well the Americans have had enough of the political football being played by politicians.
Zardari can manage to save the day by taking some drastic measures that might include strong action against the terror groups as well bringing back Nawaz Sharif into the political mainstream.
If the Pakistan President fails to take this warning seriously then history might repeat in South Asia and army might come back to the corridors of power for the umpteenth time in the neighbouring country.
A lot of people are speculating a Kakar-like coup of the early 90s, when Nawaz Sharif and Ghulam Ishaq Khan kept dueling. The Army intervened, threw them both off the stage.
Kiyani won't come into power, but he'll hold fresh elections. People are giving this present government just 15 more days!