By Simon Templar
Thug
life is a term used by gangsters to glorify their law breaking, heady crime
sprees.
Nothing
describes the misrule of two successive, so called democratically elected
governments in the unstable, underdeveloped 200 million strong south Asian
state of Pakistan.
How
thieves, plunderers and freebooters came to rule this nuclear armed state is a
sad tale in itself.
Ruled
by military General Pervez Musharraf who took over in a military coup in 1999,
the country became a close US ally after 9/11 and witnessed an era of growth
and stability under military rule.
However
when Musharraf reached his limits of flexibility, it was decided by the US and
British to force him bring back the two tainted, condemned political leaders in
exile and to wash away all their sins under a dubious order in the name of
national reconciliation.