THE GENERAL: Polls show Musharraf to have a 78% approval rating in Pakistan. Jane's also reports that all the major Pakistani political parties are united behind him. Only a minority supported the Taliban in the first place, and Musharraf has been doing a good job of shuffling their sympathisers out of his government. As military dictators go, he is good. Everyone will be watching to see if he does restore elections by next year, as he has claimed. But everything will also depend on how stable Pakistan and the rest of the region is in a years time. What you wouldn't want is "one man, one vote, one time."