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Pakistan Q & A: Pervez Musharraf: The New Man

In an interview with TIME's Michael Fathers and Hannah Bloch, Pakistan's new ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, discussed his vision for Pakistan's future:

TIME: Having ended 14 years of representative government, what do you plan to put in its place?

Musharraf: I would like to move toward the substance of democracy and away from the sham democracy we have had. I want a true democracy at the grass-roots level in which people can govern themselves and run their own health programs and road construction. Members of the National Assembly were doling out uncontrolled funds and controlling people's destinies at their whims. I'll...

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