New Delhi, Tue, 19 Aug 2008 M Shamsur Rabb Khan The history of political leadership in Pakistan is mired with coups, killings or bloodshed whereby regime change has been actualised. This has actually been a general trend in Pakistan, as the nation had experienced a very unstable political climate since independence. This kind of political scenario has given birth to many ills, prominent being the rise of militant organisations. And now that Pervez Musharraf is out of the scene and a coalition government is in power, it is highly unlikely that things will improve much, as the very basics of polity is plagued with party politics and army interventions. What has happened to Pervez Musharraf was inevitable, sooner or later since he had staged one of the biggest military coups to kick Nawaz Sharif out from power in 1999, put him...
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