General Musharraf said he decided to act on Saturday in response to a rise in extremism 'I fear that if timely action is not taken, then God forbid there is a threat to Pakistan's sovereignty,' he said in a midnight televised address, after purging the Supreme Court and rounding up lawyers opposed to him.
'I cannot allow this country to commit suicide.'
The parallels here are obvious and I'll avoid belaboring them.
and what he called the paralysis of government by judicial interference.
Beautiful.
