It's a second coup: Bhutto

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Musharraf guilty of second coup: Bhutto

November 5, 2007 - 5:59AM


Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto has accused President Pervez Musharraf of staging a "second coup" which will only fuel radicalism in the nuclear-armed country.

Interviewed on US network CBS, Bhutto said Pakistani judges and opposition parties will not take the military ruler's declaration of emergency rule "lying down".

"I'm very disappointed that General Musharraf has suspended the constitution of our country and promulgated a provisional constitutional order," she said, accusing him of staging a "second coup" after first seizing power in 1999.

"Ironically this is a coup conducted by General Musharraf against his own regime in a sense because he's acted in his capacity as army chief to suspend the constitution and to declare a new provisional constitution.

"But I know that the judges are not going to take this lying down. The lawyers aren't going to take this lying down. The political activists and party leaders are going to protest it," Bhutto said.

"It's going to lead to an unnecessary confrontation between the regime and the people which only can help the extremists who will exploit the situation to their advantage . . ."


http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/its-a-second-coup-bhutto/2007/11/05/1194117906076.html

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