Former commando Pervez Musharraf refuses to fade away from Pakistan scene though he has been living outside the country for a long while. His latest thank you to Gen Raheel Sharif is bound to keep in lime light for quite some time, whether it was a deliberate effort on his part on not. In a manner of speaking, there is nothing amiss in the new Musharraf-speak. The corridors of GHQ in Rawalpindi and PMO in Islamabad are abuzz that Musharraf’s exile was facilitated by Gen Raheel Sharif. Now the former strong man is putting his seal on these rumours.
The question that needs an answer is something else. It is about the timing of Musharraf’s thank you.
Obviously, as Daily Times said editorially, Musharraf wants to embarrass his bete noire Nawaz Sharif, and settle some old and new scores with him. Secondly, and in fact, most importantly, he would like  expose the feet of clay of the Pakistan judiciary, which had scripted the down fall of his regime long after giving it legitimacy by invoking the doctrine of necessity. Musharraf –speak is a reminder to the people of Pakistan that it is the GHQ Shura that calls the shots and not the civilian leadership, this is a timely reminder Nawaz Sharif probably needs more than anyone else in Pakistan since he has gone down in history books by appointing the fifth army chief.