"That's the irony of it all. I mean you are damned if you support one individual over another and damned if you don't."
"Yes precisely. I mean Musharraf has said BB and Nawaz Sharif will both have to face the music if they return but the point is..."
"The point is that the deal has not quite been struck."
"What about the release of AZ?"
"He is still loitering about in the country unable to meet his wife or children, while she can't return."
"Conditions for striking a deal, is that what you mean?"
"Precisely. Meanwhile Nawaz Sharif has been advised to step down in favour of Mian Sahib Junior Most but my point is simple: why would Nawaz Sharif allow that to happen? Brothers are seldom seen as heir apparent. See even King Abdullah got rid of his brother as the Crown Prince even though it was Queen Noor, his step mom, who supposedly got him the job in place of her brother-in-law."
"You reckon this is Muslim?"
"Nah. Just dynastic."
"So they are not going to support Musharraf keeping the uniform in which case Musharraf is not going to make it easy for them to practise politics in the country."
"Indeed."
"So it is back to the Maulanas with whom he reneged on the deal on taking off his uniform?"
"Well, I think he has reneged on the deal with the people of this country..."
"But as his constituency is so far not challenging him..."
"Precisely, so he is going to brazen it all out and see how the Maulanas and other opposition members create problems on the streets."
"He can even get the section 144 on all political rallies..."
"Thought we had democracy."
"Only the new and improved kind."
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