Wampum

Tariq Aziz and Rehman Malik have been meeting for months, negociating on behalf of their principals. Yesterday their principals, President and General Pervez Musharraf and former Prime Minister and leader of the PPP, Benazir Bhutto, flew from Islamabad and London, respectively, to meet in Abu Dhabi yesterday. The meeting was unannounced and follows eight years of extreme hostility between them.

I expect a Constitutional amendment to change the current two-term limit to three, and Musharraf to surrender command of the Army, contemporanious with Bhutto's return from exile and standing as the PPP's candidate for President, with the actual intent to be re-appointed as Prime Minister under the (less unitary executive) third-term Musharraf presidency.