Today's New York Times includes a story, Musharraf’s Party Accepts Defeat reporting that the party of President Pervez Musharraf was defeated in Monday's parliamentary elections by Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Musharraf had declared a state of emergency in November, claiming it was necessary to suspend many constitutional rights because of the threat to Pakistan's stability posed by extremists and terrorists.
The two opposition parties, which together control a majority of seats in Parliament, are now bargaining over the terms of a power-sharing agreement.
One item in the list of demands made by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif caught my eye:
Mr. Sharif has been reported to agree to the Peoples Party assuming the post of prime minister in exchange for three things: impeachment proceedings against Mr. Musharraf; the reinstatement of the dismissed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and other judges; and the appointment of a top lawyer, Aitzaz Ahsan, as prime minister.
So in Pakistan, when the President violates the constitution and his party then loses in elections, he faces impeachment proceedings. Meanwhile, here in the United States...
To add to the irony, the Times story above was preceded by only a few days with this one:
U.S. Struggles to Tutor Iraqis in Rule of Law
And this is where I drag out that old joke about "Those that can't, teach."
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