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| 04/09/2002 |
| THE DEMI PRESIDENT, THE SEMI COAS |
ON MUSHARRAF REMAINING BOTH COAS AND PRESIDENT
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| The Indians have a name for it and a place for it in their pantheon of governing deities. They call it Ardhanhari. It is a composite of Shiva (the god of destruction) and his consort Parvati – half male, half female. Together the two, the male symbolising the contemplative shakta and the female the active shakti, fuse into one composite omnipotent force. |
| On 21 August 2002, while presenting his Constitutional Reforms Package at Pakistan Television Studios in Islamabad, President Pervez Musharraf revealed the creation of a similar entity in Pakistan, a fusion of two potent powers, of himself as the President of Pakistan and of himself again as its Chief of Army Staff; the nation’s two supreme authorities - civil and military - conjoined, like a set of Siamese twins, at the head. [EXTRACT] |
Published in DAWN 4 September 2002, titled: What the Reforms Package means, and reprinted in WHEN BUSH COMES TO SHOVE & OTHER WRITINGS (2006). |
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