General Musharraf (Deluded)

To be fair to Musharraf, he had given me my I-told-you-so moment much earlier than his arrest this week. That was when he was exiled in 2008. A few months after he had overthrown an elected government enjoying a two-thirds majority and jailed its popular prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, I had written ('Generally speaking', National Interest, IE, July 15, 2000, http://goo.gl/ XRx5q) that there were only four ways a dictator could end up in Pakistan: assassinated or jailed by successors or exiled or disgraced, usually after waging a war on India and losing.

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