August , 2008
Waiting in the General Lounge
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Eventually it was all three speeches that Musharraf decided to read out. For the week preceding his address to the Nation- he must have been considering his options- just as drawing rooms across Pakistan were, just as journalists like us who were gathering in Islamabad were. PTV, with a flourish unknown to state television anywhere had a permanent popup box flashing on its screen- Impeachment or Resignation? it said. Impeachment or Resignation? Would he quit without a fight, or stand and face parliament? Or, as we had watched him do since the February 18th election, simply pretend nothing had happened, that he was going to continue as Pakistan's legally-elected President until his term expired in 2012, and extend our waiting game by another week, another month. But nobody I knew, nobody I met who knew him thought he could actually stay. So, when would he go? I....
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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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