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| Musharraf's poll vow: US satisfied |
| The Bush White House on Thursday applauded Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf's decision to proceed with elections in Pakistan
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 8-November-2007
9:18:24 AM |
| The Bush White House on Thursday applauded Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf's decision to proceed with elections in Pakistan, which has been convulsing from his imposition of emergency rule last week.
''We think it is a good thing that President Musharraf has clarified the election date for the Pakistani people,'' press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement given to reporters who were accompanying President George W Bush on a trip to Texas later on Thursday.
The administration issued the statement welcoming the election the day after Bush exhorted the embattled Musharraf in a telephone call to hold elections and to step down as head of the military in the Southwest Asian nation that has been riddled by unrest for the past several days.
''You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time,'' Bush said on Wednesday, telling reporters about the 20-minute telephone call he had with Musharraf.
''I had a very frank discussion with him,'' Bush said about their conversation.
The conversation was the first communication the US president had with Musharraf since the Pakistani declared emergency rule last Saturday and granted sweeping powers to authorities to crush political dissent.
In Islamabad, on Thursday, Musharraf announced after a meeting of his National Security Council that elections would be held in February, a month later than had been planned previously.
The announcement, nevertheless, was seen as a signal that the state of emergency would there would not last long security restrictions would likely have to be eased to allow campaigning.
Bush talked about his message to Musharraf as he joined visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a tour Wednesday of the Mount Vernon, Virginia, home of the US's first president, George Washington.
''My message was very plain, very easy to understand, and that is, the United States wants you to have the elections as scheduled and take your uniform off,
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