Attempt on Musharraf's life

Pakistan has a bad record regarding the killing of their leaders. The first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was shot dead in broad daylight while he was addressing a public meeting on the playground of Rawalpindi's Gordon College after hardly three years of Pakistan's independenc in 1947.

In 1968, Field Marshall Ayub Khan, the then president of Pakistan, escaped an assasin's bullet while he was addressing a public meeting in Peshwar, just 200 km from Rawalpindi. Two years later, Ayub was dismissed by his chief of the army General Yahya Khan. Two years later, Yahya himself was removed from power strangely by a civilian politician, Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto, a fromer member of Ayub's cabinet, with help from General Gul Hasan, the then chief of general staff.

In 1978, Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto, the colourful prime minister of Pakistan and father of latter-day prime minister, an even more colourful Benazir Bhutto (who became prime minister twice, a record for Pakistan) was hanged by Gen. Ziaul Huq who ousted Zulfi in a military coup to become president of the country. Benazir herself has been banished from Pakistan and now lives in London and Dubai, more or less like a gypsy.

Ziaul Huq, the iron man died in a C-130 crash while he was returning to Islamabad, Pakistan's capital. It is not known what caused the crash, but a lot of people think it was some kind of a plot by his enemies whoever they were.

The Irish Republican Army, better known as IRA, commented after they failed to kill a British conservative prime minister, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher,

" She has to be lucky all the times, we have to be lucky only once". Margaret survived the IRA threat but it is now for Musharraf to be "Lucky all the times".