25th March 2013 Karachi

Roy and I have just returned from Karachi where we invited to monitor the recent Pakistani elections. Former President Musharraf stayed in the newly renovated Impeachment Room, having just returned from exile in Dubai where he resided at a very posh UAE apartment on the Dubai Marina Yacht Club. Prior to his departure & his return to his homeland, Musharraf attended a tandoori barbecue in his honour at the previous weekend's send-off near the man-made nudist beach in Riyadh. At the event, he declared himself as favourite to dispose Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. Inbetween large gulps of Egyptian spearmint antacid, Gaviscon, and uncontrollable gastric reflux not akin to an ageing Jordanian camel in musk, he waved a clearance certificate from the Bhutto family whom he was once charged with failing to protect. Musharraf boldly declared he did not fear for his life despite repeated death threats from the Tehreek- E-Taliban, or a raging meltdown at the Nuclear Power station on the outskirts of Abbottabad, recently upgraded & ultimately sabotaged obviously by the Iranian secret service division, SAVAK. Is this man for real?!

An ageing camel

the former president