Yeah, but let's see if he actually goes

The New York Times has an article on the resignation of Pervez Musharraf, previously the president of Pakistan:

Speaking on television from his presidential office here at 1 p.m., Mr. Musharraf, dressed in a gray suit and tie, said that after consulting with his aides, “I have decided to resign today.” He said he was putting national interest above “personal bravado"... In an emotional ending to a speech lasting more than an hour, Mr. Musharraf raised his clenched fists to chest height, and said, “Long live Pakistan!” There were intense concerns in Washington that Mr. Musharraf’s departure would open a new era of instability in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country of 165 million people, as the fragile coalition jockeys for his share of power... The president of the Senate, Muhammad Mian Soomro, assumed the office of acting president several hours after Mr. Musharraf’s resignation... Mr. Musharraf, 65, will stay in Pakistan in the immediate future, a condition he had insisted on, according to Nasir Ali Khan, a senior member of the Pakistan Muslim League, a partner in the coalition. The coalition, led by Asif Ali Zardari, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and Nawaz Sharif, the chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, were scheduled to meet here in the capital on Monday afternoon to discuss the way forward, Mr. Khan said. The senior leaders of the coalition immediately began deliberations in Islamabad, but there were few indications of who the next president would be. According to the Constitution, a new president must be chosen within 30 days... Musharraf gave a laundry list of his achievements, ranging from expanded road networks to a national art gallery in the capital. Although Pakistan’s literacy rate hovers around 50 percent, and is much lower among women, he took credit for new schools... The army, the most powerful institution in Pakistan, stayed publicly above the fray in the past ten days. But in remaining studiously neutral and declining to come to Mr. Musharraf’s rescue, the new leader of the army, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, tipped the scales against the president, politicians said. Mr. Musharraf grabbed power in a bloodless coup in October 1999, ousting the prime minister, Mr. Sharif, who had picked Mr. Musharraf as army chief. For eight years, he ruled as head of the army and president, positions that gave him almost unfettered power and allowed the Bush administration to rely on Mr. Musharraf in the campaign on terrorism... In Afghanistan, meanwhile, government officials expressed satisfaction that Mr. Musharraf was leaving. The relationship between the neighboring countries has long been tense, with Afghan officials blaming Pakistan’s failure to crack down on militants in the border region for the increasing violence in Afghanistan... As Mr. Musharraf began to lose popularity last year, Washington tried to forge a power-sharing relationship between him and Ms. Bhutto, who had been in exile since the late 1990s and returned to Pakistan last fall. She was assassinated on Dec. 27. The Musharraf government accused the Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud of carrying out her murder. By then Mr. Sharif had also returned from exile to run in elections. The Pakistan Peoples Party of Ms. Bhutto, under the stewardship of her husband, Mr. Zardari, and the Pakistan Muslim League, under Mr. Sharif, swept into power in elections in February. Mr. Musharraf leaves office as the Taliban insurgency in the tribal areas has taken on renewed vigor in the past week, prompting civilians to leave their homes there, and pitting the paramilitary Frontier Corps, directed by the army, directly against the insurgents.

Rico says we survived Nixon, they'll survive Musharraf...