The great damager

Dictator Musharraf badly damaged Pakistan: Assassination of Benazir, 26/11 attacks in India and the US Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama in Abbottabad. But he believed he was a democrat

There are three reasons why it isn’t yet time to write the obituary of General Pervez Musharraf. One, modern life support can keep one going for a long time even after many organs might have failed.

Two, he’d ceased to matter in his country and the neighbours he tormented almost 15 years back so you might ask if he still mattered.

And three, because the really bad guys, the dictators, and especially uniformed dictators, never really die. They leave an un-erasable legacy of destruction and malevolence.

How lasting their impact can be, see the permanent damage Zia-ul-Haq has done to