Tanken är väl som Asia Times artikel nedan säger att organisera ett fredligt maktövertagande

till en civil väst-vänlig regering i Pakistan. Och förhoppningsvis förhindra att landet kollapsar eller faller ner i ett inbördeskrig.

Något som verkar ganska avlägset just nu.

Bhutto: Faderns

bödlar bakom blodbad

Benazirs Bhuttos återkomst till Pakistan väntas förändra det politiska
landskapet i Pakistan.

Envisa rykten gör gällande att Bhutto ska få
dela makten efter parlamentsvalet med Musharraf som styrt landet sedan
en militärkupp

1999.
Bhuttos fordonsparad, kantad av hundratusentals anhängare, hann i går
rulla många timmar i triumf längs miljonstaden

Karachis gator men sedan
kom attentaten som allmänt fruktats i det instabila land där hon har så
många fiender.
Som genom ett

mirakel klarade sig Bhutto helt oskadd, kanske tack vare
att hennes fordon var utrustat med störsändare av senaste snitt,

ägnade
åt att stoppa alla försök att fjärrutlösa bomber.
Internationella tungviktare som USA, FN och EU fördömer

attackerna.

Asia Times Online :: South Asia news –

Bhutto bombing kicks off war on US plan

The attack was hardly a surprise.
Militants see Bhutto’s return to

Pakistani
politics as a Western-backed coup against
Islamists in Pakistan, akin to the arrival in the
Afghan capital, Kabul, of

the US-backed Northern
Alliance in 2001. Militant leader Baitullah Mehsud
had instructed pro-al-Qaeda cells in Karachi to
kill

her for three major offenses against the
Islamists, which he listed as:- She is the only opposition politician who supported

the
military attack earlier this year on Islamabad’s
Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), a hotbed of Islamist
radicalism, and she

coninues to condemn the Lal
Masjid ideologues; – She has stated that she would
allow incursions by US forces into Pakistan

in
pursuit of Osama bin Laden; – She has stated that
she would allow the International Atomic Energy
Agency to question Dr A Q

Khan, the former leading
nuclear scientist accused of passing Pakistani
nuclear technology to anti-Western countries.

The

Western powers were meanwhile
cementing their plan for the future of Pakistan
and the region. On Thursday, the same day as

the
bomb attack, Britain’s Lord Malloch-Brown, a
minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, arrived in Pakistan

to discuss a future
pro-Western government in Islamabad. The day
before, the British Deputy High Commissioner in
Karachi,

Hamish Daniel, called on Sindh Governor
Ishratul Ebad to ensure that Bhutto’s homecoming
was accorded full

protocol.

Bhutto’s
return to Pakistan is part of a complex
arrangement brokered by Washington and its allies
to

ensure that a pro-Western government gains
power after parliamentary elections in about three
months’ time. The plan was put in

train earlier
this month with the promulgation of a National
Reconciliation Ordinance, under strong US
pressure, by Pakistan’s

current leader, General
Pervez Musharraf. Under the ordinance, all charges
against current and former lawmakers who have

been
accused of corruption (with Bhutto, a twice former
prime minister, prominent among them), were
dropped. This paved the way

for Musharraf’s
reelection as president and a political settlement
with Bhutto which, after Musharraf’s giving up his
post as

chief of the military, would result in a
civilian-based, pro-Western consensus government -
or so Washington hopes. (See

href="http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IJ11Df01.html">From Washington to war in
Waziristan, ATol,

Oct 11, 2007)

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