Plans for March Unaltered; Nawaz: Zardari will Not Serve out Term

Juan Cole 03/13/2009

Even though the Zardari government has arrested hundreds of activists, planning for the march on Islamabad this weekend continued unabated.

In what sounds like an ominous threat, Nawaz Sharif said Thursday that his rival, President Asaf Ali Zardar,would not serve out his 5-year term. He did not elaborate on the meaning of this cryptic pronouncement.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page