New Pakistani regime possible by next year’s end: FP

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A writer for the Foreign Policy magazine has claimed in an article published on December 12 that it was a “good bet” that Pakistan could have a new leadership at the helm of the affairs by the end of next year.
In his article “Next year, in Review”, noted writer David Rothkopf said predicting the situation in Pakistan for the next year would be almost impossible. Citing President Asif Ali Zardari’s health emergency as a potential game changer, he said the Pakistan Army, just like the Egyptian military, considered democracy a “political equivalent of offering a big fake smile for the cameras”.
“The ISI don’t even bother to smile (regardless of the reaction their initials may bring when strategically tattooed on the right actress,” he said, hinting at the controversy involving Veena Malik’s recent photo shoot.
“Whether these puppet masters push to have a shill take over the country (an ex-cricketer, for example) or simply go old school and march back into the government offices, it’s a good bet that by the end of next year we have new leadership in Islamabad,” he wrote.
Rothkopf began the article wondering about the five top foreign-policy stories of 2011 “It probably wouldn’t take too long. You’d have to put the Arab Spring on top of the list. Next would come the Eurocrisis. Getting Osama bin Laden probably also rates. Then what? Fukushima? Turmoil in Pakistan? Year of the Drone?”