I didn’t think he would. From the Washington Post:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 28—President Pervez Musharraf formally stepped down as the chief of Pakistan’s powerful army Wednesday morning, reluctantly bowing to international pressure to end his eight-year reign as the increasingly unpopular military ruler of this nuclear-armed Muslim nation of 160 million.
Gen. Musharraf, 64, handed over his post as promised to the vice-army chief and retired from the army at an elaborate ceremony on a vast parade ground inside army headquarters in the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi. He is now scheduled to take his oath Thursday as Pakistan’s civilian president for the next five years.
Without command of the army he probably won’t last long now. I could be wrong but they’ll turn on him when someone strikes the right deal with the generals and he’ll be ousted, exiled, imprisoned, or maybe even murdered.
Then we’ll see who gets control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.
