Pakistan has had four military dictators (if one omits Gen.Iskander Mirza) in its history, but none hadsought to distort the entire constitutional and legal process in the country in such an outrageous manner asGen.Pervez Musharraf has done with his constitutional amendments and administrative orders withoutconstitutional or legal sanction. None had misused the military-intelligence establishment in such ablatant manner to manipulate the electoral process as he has been doing to influence the forthcoming electionsto the National Assembly on October 10, 2002.