A feeble defence

PRESIDENT Musharraf seems determined to stay in the ring and fight on. For that he is cobbling up fallacious arguments. Replying to the charges levelled against him by PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Zardari on Thursday, he said that he had not abrogated the Constitution and that whatever he had done was in the best interest of the country. What was rather ominous was his contention that he would not sit back as a passive viewer and would therefore chalk out a counter-strategy to neutralize the emerging threat to his power.