President Pervez Musharraf resigned his military post as Chief of Army Staff today, handing over the command stick to his successor in a ceremony at army headquarters and ending his eight years of military rule. He remains president and will be sworn in to a new five-year term in the capital on Thursday, but as a civilian president his power will be diminished.
On Wednesday, hundreds of senior officers, politicians and other civilians watched from the stands as an unsmiling Musharraf, wearing a phalanx of medals and a green sash across his uniform, reviewed the ranks to the strains of "Auld Lang Syne."
How has this unthinkable act happened???
the answer is simple - mass media - accessable to west, run for middle class of pakistan. The consumption patterns of pakistan have fuelled a section - so far marginalised to take advantage of capatlist parties and assert its way of life on the historically army ruled state.
It seems market forces can do bigger things than makeing poor, poorer. They can weed out dictators, communists, and calm guns of maoists.
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