With Pakistan’s battle with social disintegration and extremism now met with historic natural disaster, ousted military ruler Pervez Musharraf is planning a return to the country and a return to politics.
From Hong Kong last week, Musharraf made the case that he speaks for a silent majority of modernizing, young and economically mobile Pakistanis.
He says he has a strong following among Pakistan’s silent majority: the progressive-minded, economically mobile, urban, and urbane younger sections of society. As proof, he points to his 300,000 Facebook followers mainly aged between 18 and 34. “Therefore, I know that it is the youth who are yearning for change,” he said Wednesday.
