Holbrooke Dismisses Chances of Musharraf Comeback, Reuters, 17 November 2010

EXCERPT: "Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has very little chance of regaining power in 2013 elections and any return to military rule would be a disaster, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. 'He has about as much chance of coming back to power as (former Soviet) President (Mikhail) Gorbachev,' Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, told a gathering of U.S. diplomats and security experts. Musharraf, who came to power in 1999 in a bloodless military coup, announced last month in London he had created a new party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, with an eye to competing in the 2013 polls. Musharraf, who has lived in self-imposed exile since he stepped down under threat of impeachment in 2008, has said he believes he has 'an even chance' of regaining power."

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