Normal elections in Pakistan being incompatible with ...
... an expansion of the CENTCOM Area of Operations to eastern, southern and of course, western Iran, the possibility that SIS-Appointed Musharaff and Rehnquist-Appointed Bush have created a favorable situation can't be dismissed. Freedom of maneuver for Taliban presidential assassination squads as far as Rawalpindi from the North West is profoundly surprising.
The January 8th legislatives are likely to be cancelled and a new state of emergency, somewhat fictive after Musharaff's last one just to rid himself of judicial scrutiny, is certain.