The media has been awash with reports of President Pervez Musharraf’s impending resignation in the face of the current coalition government’s move to impeach him. Late last week, both the Wall Street Journal and New York Times had issued reports that Musharraf was going to resign within days, with the Wall Street Journal going [...]

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We’ve learnt that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will be stepping down as Chief of Army Staff (COAS) in a changeover ceremony on Wednesday in which Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani will ascend to the army’s top slot (see our profile of Kayani here). On Thursday, Musharraf will be sworn in for his second term as [...]

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Our sources are now reporting that Nawaz Sharif could return to Pakistan as early as this Saturday or Sunday. Upon landing in Pakistan, he is scheduled to head directly to his home in Lahore or his massive 50-acre estate in Raiwind. He is apparently under strict orders by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to [...]

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Unbeknownst to the public, a high-ranking Pakistan Army delegation returned from a visit to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on October 11th. (Author’s note: Apologies to IB readers, as much as I’d like to divulge the names of delegation members, I am currently not at liberty to do so.) The visit may have been a courtesy call [...]

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A NEW SPYMASTER
Highly placed sources report that Maj. Gen. Nadeem Taj, currently the Commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), will be named the new ISI chief in the coming days, replacing Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Kayani.
Maj. Gen. Taj is a trustworthy ally of Pres. Gen. Musharraf’s and has been considered by many to be up [...]

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He came, he saw, he … got deported.
Nawaz Sharif’s highly anticipated return from exile on September 10th very quickly dissipated into an anti-climactic return to exile.
In the wake of his deportation, Benazir Bhutto has announced that after nearly a decade in self-imposed exile, she herself will be returning to Pakistan on October 18th. The government [...]

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The Howie Mandel in all of us is asking, “Deal or no deal?”
It is a question that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and self-exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will have to answer soon if they hope to counter the growing momentum of Nawaz Sharif’s campaign to return not only to Pakistan, but to power.
AN UNLIKELY [...]

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