It all depends on politicians' behaviour: a serving Gen

LONDON (Agencies) - A Pakistan Army’s General has said that the behaviour of politicians would determine the eventuality of the Army again coming into power.
“It all depends on how the politicians behave,” one general told The Sunday Times. “The Pakistan Army is like a beautiful black stallion. Ride it and it will serve you well. Kick it and it will buck.” Waiting in the wings for President and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari to make a slip is PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif, whose party now forms the main Opposition party. Although he says he feels “sad and betrayed” by Zardari, he vows: “We won’t destabilise the government. The country is too vulnerable.”
Nawaz’s fear is that if it all falls apart there will not be another election, but a return to the Army.
Saturday’s presidential elections saw Asif Ali Zardari overwhelmingly voted in as head of state. Zardari whose favourite film is The Godfather will now take centre stage as he is sworn in as the country’s most powerful President.
“Not even a novelist with the most fertile imagination could have come up with this one,” said a political analyst.
“Nobody could have imagined this a year ago,” Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who led the PPP while Benazir Bhutto was in exile and is still its parliamentary leader, told The Sunday Times. “It wasn’t even a nightmare.”
“After Benazir he (Zardari) is the next target,” said a government minister. “Being President is the only way we can give him the protection he needs.”