Musharraf impeachment may leave big vacuum: Govt

In an interview to Singapore daily‘The Straits Times, he said it was not important from the Indian point of view if President Musharraf was impeached or not.

“But it leaves a big vacuum and we are deeply concerned about this vacuum because it leaves the radical extremist outfits with freedom to do what they like, not merely on the Pak-Afghan border but clearly our side of the border too,” Narayanan said.

“Like nature abhors a vacuum, we abhor the political vacuum that exists in Pakistan. It greatly worries us,” he said.

Maintaining that the situation was evolving in a manner nobody could quite reach a conclusion, Narayanan said they thought President Musharraf’s impeachment might not take place.

“And if at all he has to go, he will be allowed to go in grace and some sort of a compromise would be reached.

Obviously that is not happening. Mr. Nawaz Sharif is very angry and thre is no about it,” he said.

He said a large number of people in Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) were unhappy about Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and most of them attribute it to ISI or some such agency.

“While Zardari may be more conciliatory towards Musharraf the general temper seems to be otherwise,” he said.