Unfavourable for the US

The US administration cannot always hopes to bask in the sunshine of the present government's policy of outright capitulation before the US. Unrest is already building up among the people against the unchallenged US missile strikes on Pakistan. The one reason why Musharraf had to go was his policy of capitulation towards the US. If the incumbent president did not learn from his predecessor's mistakes he too will have to meet the same fate, may be even worse.
The unanimous resolution passed by the Parliament in October 2008 calling upon the government for making a clear departure from Musharraf's foreign policy particularly his support to the US in its War On Terror and further calling upon the government to deal effectively with the missile attacks will further hamstring the president in toeing the line taken by America. According to a poll carried out by the Pew and the International Republican Institute 89 percent of the people in Pakistan do not approve of the ongoing War.
No doubt, the incumbent president like Musharraf presides over the destiny of our nation all by himself and has owned up the War On Terror as Pakistan's own War and admitted in his interview published in the Wall Street Journal that all the US missile strikes on Pakistan during his regime had been carried out with his approval. However, the FO office spokesman on November 13 had been perhaps for the first time, after Zardari's election to the office of the president, strongly condemning the missile attacks terming them as "a violation of international law and all understating."
General Kiyani also said that the army stood with the people of Pakistan in the hour of trial and tribulation. He further declared that the Pakistan army would retaliate within minutes in case of an attack by the Indian army. What is more eye-opening is that some of the members of the Parliament who were invited by the American ambassador for a briefing by General David D Mckeirnan, as reported by a private TV channel, told him that the missile attacks were only fuelling the fire of terrorism. They tried to impress on him the desirability to engage the militants through negotiations instead of confronting them militarily.