Does Musharraf have an exit strategy?
No he does not. He thinks if he remains head of the army nobody will throw him out. He fails to remember that army chiefs in Pakistan have not had a very nice life. Yahya Khan went to Ayub and told him, ‘Go home sir’ and he had to. General Gul Hasan went to Yahya and said, ‘Go home sir,’ and he had to. General Zia died and if he was killed it had to be by his own men. General Asif Nawaz died and again if he was killed it is because his own men wanted a change. [Jehangir] Karamat resigned and Musharraf himself was about to be killed in a plane crash. General Musharraf is a pretty bright man, isn’t he? That’s what people say, but from what I remember of him, I was quite disappointed by his analytical skills. He was my Director General Military Operations and he presented me with his plan in front of 50 officers about how the mujahideen would infiltrate an area similar to Kargil. How they would bring about a war and the Indians wouldn’t be able to dislocate us and they would be forced to
