What a short memory!

DESPITE General Musharraf's growing irrelevance to local or international politics, except for the bad recollections his stint of military dictatorship would evoke in the minds of the people of Pakistan, his recent comments on the country's present predicament in an interview at London would raise many an eyebrow. He seems to absolve himself from the blame of failure in controlling militancy, ignoring the glaring reality that it was during his tenure and because of his policies that terrorism had dug its roots in FATA's soil, which is very much a part of Pakistan, with tentacles in other parts of the country. Rather, he accuses the current set-up of not effectively checking the scourge. The evident truth is that the prevalent state of militancy and the widespread sense of insecurity are a continuum of his days.