Musharraf's Address

All praises to our general who is a leader in the ture sense of the word. In my view, our general in behaving the way an ideal leader should do, as Machiavelli stated in 'The Prince" that a leader should be brave like a lion and cunning like a fox.
In his address to the nation, General Musharraf's decision regarding the LFO issue rather surprised me. In his speech, without mentioning an exact date, General said that he would shed his uniform by December 2004. However, in one way I do not agree with the general, i.e., the performance of the local bodies government, since in my view the previous system was doing a lot better.

Readers Column, The Nation January 2004.