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Pakistan's borderlands: the country's
leaders
argue it must maintain good relations with the
Taliban regime in Afghanistan |
After decades of what Pakistan's finance minister, Shaukat
Aziz, terms "stop-go policies" investors and international donor
agencies are anxiously waiting to see if the government can make
good on its promise to transform reform into stability and growth.
The countdown has begun: general Pervez Musharraf, who seized
power from prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a two-hour bloodless coup
nearly two years ago, has promised to restore democracy by October
of next year. Musharraf says he intends to "ensure continuity" by
staying on in his executive role, overseeing events from behind the
scenes, presumably on the Turkish model.
Musharraf and his team will have their hands full trying to
restore investor confidence in a country that was on the brink of
default according to Aziz, with talk of isolation and a total
breakdown in expenditure controls...
