'Musharraf has agreed to quit as military chief'

[Socrtease]

(CNN) -- Pakistan's President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has agreed to step down as the country's military chief during negotiations on a power-sharing deal with Pakistan's former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, she told CNN Wednesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/29/pakistan.negotiations/index.html

 

[Cancel7]

So this keeps Musharraf in office then, laying waste to the term limit.

 

[blackascoal]

He's trying to avoid the rise of the guy he overthrew who has been granted he right to return to Pakistan.

 

[uscitizen]

hmmm, Muskrats hold on power has been tenuous for some time.

 

[Thorn]

So what could this mean for US-Pakistan relations?

 

[uscitizen]

I don't really have a clue, but they do have the bomb and recently tested a cruise missle or two....And seems like OBL has buddies over there.

 

[Epicurus]

So what could this mean for US-Pakistan relations?

It means the Musharraf won't have the iron hold over his country that he did.

 

[uscitizen]

It means the Musharraf won't have the iron hold over his country that he did.

Umm right I figured that out, but beyond that....
It has seemed to me that our only real contact in Pakistan was Muskrat.....
will they kick our base out ?
become a haven for AQ ?
Side with Iran ?
etc.