Musharraf resigns but will live Islamabad farmhouse and contest election in the future
Sudhir Chadda
Aug. 18, 2008

The chapter of Musharraf is not really over. The same PPP folks dancing in Karachi will face Musharraf in future elections of Pakistan. Musharraf tuned a very negative situation to a prospective one by resigning and waiting for an opportunity to come back to power.

The deal reached secretly is simple. He will not be prosecuted. He will have full security from Pakistani Government. He will be able to contest the elections in future.

An emotional Musharraf said he wanted to spare Pakistan from a dangerous power struggle.

"I hope the nation and the people will forgive my mistakes," Musharraf said in a televised address largely devoted to defending his record.

After inspecting a guard on honor outside his hulking white marble palace in the capital, a pokerfaced Musharraf stepped into a black limousine and left the building — perhaps for the last time.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, head of the main pro-Musharraf party, said Musharraf would live in Islamabad, where he owns a farmhouse on the outskirts.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said leaders of the ruling coalition would discuss later Monday whether to prosecute Musharraf in court on the impeachment charges.

Briefly, his political foes put those issues on the back burner and got on with celebrating.

"It is a victory of democratic forces," Information Minister Sherry Rehman said. "Today, the shadow of dictatorship that has prevailed for long over this country, that chapter has been closed."

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