Pakistan Election Winners Push Musharraf to Convene "Hostile New Parliament"

On February 18, a parliamentary election was held in Pakistan.  The winners of the election have yet to convene in their first legislative session.  The election winners have already begun to call for a complete resignation of Musharraf though it remains to be seen how this situation plays out.

When the parliament does eventually convene, that is, if they do, Musharraf will be facing a very hostile group of players.  To his credit though, he has been very embracing of a slow "succession of power" throughout the previous months.  He clearly still holds his grip on power, but he recently stepped down as the leader of the military, and was replaced by one of his own lackeys.  So technically, he only remains as a political and diplomatic figure in the rule of the country.

One reason why Pakistan has been so closely watched is that the US Government is sending foreign aid to Pakistan, quite literally in the Billions of dollars very similar to the US support of Saudi Arabia.  What is scary about this is that upon receipt by the Pakistani's, the money evaporates.  There is no money trail and no accounting of what entities end up with these funds.  All the US Government is given is a promise, by the great Musharraf himself that these funds will go to helping fight in the War on Terror and keeping the violent Taliban at bay along the Pakistan-Afgani border.