Only for better democracyThe
interview of Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf from Time magazine (Dec. 6, 1999).
Time: You ended 14 years of democracy what will you put in its place?
Musharraf : I would like to move away from the sham democracy we have had in
Pakistan. I want a true democracy at the grass-roots level, where people can govern
themselves and run their own health programs and road construction. I intend
to devolve power from the center to the provinces and from the provinces to the districts.
Members of the National Assembly were doling out funds and controlling people's destinies
at their whim, I'll change that.