"The perennial mis-calculator is our Musharraf."
"The guy couldn't have mis-calculated that much, he was after all the man with complete power for around eight years, and held the two most powerful offices namely chief of army staff as well as President and who no politician, inside or outside the country, could dare challenge without paying a heavy price."
"See that's the difference between our civilian and military rulers - a civilian ruler can lose his parliamentarians if he doesn't do what they want him to, we have all heard of forward blocs in all parties - the most recent being in PTI. Parliamentarians go where they get more benefits and let's be honest, Asif Ali Zardari is master of determining the price of any individual parliamentarian but during a dictatorship the military strongman has no fear of losing parliamentarians because they know where their bread is buttered."
"In our case they know in the desi ghee their parathas are fried in."
"Don't be facetious, the parliamentarians have a perfectly legitimate right to seek a party which is more tuned into their ideology."
"If you replace the word ideology with benefits then I would agree."
"Hey, there's no difference between ideology and benefits, the two go together."
"You can say what you want but we know what's what. And Musharraf did not mis-calculate anything, not till he lost power".
"What do you call the road side bomb attacks that are carried out by Musharraf's misguided supporters, isn't that what Khawaja Asif said."
"Indeed, but the lesson learned is that the civilian party chairmen can be confronted with breakaway factions at any time but a military strongman must understand that his strength does not stem from his self but from the entity he heads. The moment Musharraf resigned as chief of army staff he signed his death warrants..."
"The case of treason has not even begun in one sense and you are talking of a death sentence."
"You and Musharraf have one thing in common: not to wait for the entire picture to emerge and cutting off a speaker mid sentence: Musharraf signed his death warrants as a party leader who could win a general election."
"Oh yeah, there I agree."