November , 2007
Double jeopardy or quit
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Musharraf's only chance of salvaging any of his bets made in the past eight years,is to lift the emergency as soon as possible. In the sea of scorn that is being poured on President Musharraf for his latest move, I risk being drowned in acid. I must confess, though, that I have often thought the General had the right idea- primarily because he always does things differently. He is a strange duck, in that sense, who has walked like a dictator and talked like a democrat. Landing in Pakistan in 2000, some months after he took over (before 9/11 began to shape his policies) I was struck by three things. The first was the composition of his cabinet- called the National security council- practically all professionals with field experience- The finance minister was a former governor of Pakistan's federal bank, (Citibank executive and now PM Shaukat Aziz....
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Suhasini Haidar is the Deputy Foreign Editor and Prime-Time anchor for CNN-IBN, regularly anchoring its award-winning show India@9. She entered the world of journalism in 1994 with an internship at the CNN’s United Nations Bureau in New York. She worked with the CNN in New Delhi after that, as a producer and then as a correspondent until she moved to CNN-IBN in 2005. Suhasini regularly covers the sub-continent, frequently reporting from Pakistan. She has also traveled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cover his official visits to the US, France, Russia, NAM, SAARC and CHOGM and is the only journalist to have interviewed Singh, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, and their daughters. Suhasini's also been in the field covering elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir for CNN-IBN. She received her Bachelor's degree at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College and her Master's at Boston University's College of Communication. When not at work Suhasini turns off the TV and loves to read, swim and walk. When she is lucky, her two daughters, dogs and husband join in.
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