Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pakistan-faces-political-challenges-after-musharrafs-exit Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned Monday in the face of an impeachment bid. Analysts examine the end of the Musharraf era and the future for U.S. ties to the country. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JUDY WOODRUFF: The president of Pakistan resigns. We start with a report narrated by Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News. LINDSEY HILSUM: An honor guard for the very last time. Pervez Musharraf wanted to leave office with dignity. He thanked his presidential staff one by one.In a television address, he spent an hour praising himself and railing against his political enemies. But then this…PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan (through translator): For the sake of the nation and the country today, I have decided to resign from my post. My resignation will reach the speaker of the national assembly today. I don't want anything from anybody. I leave my future in the hands of the nation and the people. Let them be the judge, and let them do justice. LINDSEY HILSUM: The men who brought him down met to talk strategy. Nawaz Sharif was overthrown and imprisoned by Mr. Musharraf. Asif Zardari blames him for the murder of his wife, Benazir Bhutto.In the streets, they were celebrating. Over the last year or so, Mr. Musharraf made many enemies, not just the opposition political parties, who were voted in, in February, but also the judiciary and lawyers after he sacked judges bringing cases against him. PAKISTANI CITIZEN (through translator): Thank God for this. We're very happy today. He has decided — and how can I say how happy I am? It's a great thing. LINDSEY HILSUM: It's a far cry from 1999, when General Musharraf, as he was then, overthrew the corrupt regime of Nawaz Sharif and promised to bring honesty and order. After 9/11, he threw in his lot with President Bush, announcing himself an ally in the war on terror.He supported the war in Afghanistan, providing backup for the Americans in exchange for $11 billion of military aid.Last year, militant Islamists seized the Red Mosque in Islamabad, so President Musharraf sent in the army to crush them, angering extremists and human rights campaigners alike.Then, lawyers representing secular middle-class forces turned against him. He declared a state of emergency just to stay in power.February's election was a rout. The party here created to back him was defeated by the same, old political forces that he tried to neutralize nine years earlier.At the end of his speech today, he said goodbye. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF (through translator): May God protect Pakistan. May God protect you all. Long live Pakistan forever. JUDY WOODRUFF: Margaret Warner takes the story from there.