What we cannot forget as far as Leghari is concerned is his involvement with that known corrupt banker Yunus Habib who was ultimately convicted and jailed. We have suffered Benazir twice and Nawaz twice. The people surely do not again want or need Farooq Leghari in any future position of power. His friends and 'admirers' should advise him to live off his ancestral properties and whatever assets he has gathered unto himself along the way and renounce politics for his own and our good. He should be satisfied with the fact that he at least occupies a fairly notorious place in the history of Pakistan in the 1990s and is not merely a footnote.
Retreats are at times strategically necessary.
From his recent remarks and body language it would appear that General Musharraf has regrouped and is attempting to swing along the right path. He is considering signing the CTBT - this is a must. He talks of the difficulty which he is facing having to deal with 1.5 million extremists and their spreading tentacles, the uneducated bigots who can sink any country or empire. One and a half million is a substantial number, and ten of them in Lahore or Karachi, or five in Islamabad, Quetta or Peshawar, could easily disrupt any form of governance, particularly when law and order is not enforced. What the general must remember is that people cannot forgive a military government, with the funds, force and power it has, for refusing to, or being incapable of, imposing on this unruly country some stable, strong form of law and order.