pervez musharraf

The last time Jon Stewart had Pervez Musharraf on 'The Daily Show' (Weeknights, 11PM ET on Comedy Central), he was the President of Pakistan.

Musharraf was in office from June 2001 until he resigned in August 2008, and he's been in self-imposed exile from Pakistan since his resignation. However, he has plans to return and run for president again in 2012.

But Stewart was more interested in the fact that Musharraf was president while a certain terrorist was holed up in Pakistan.

It was a very candid interview, and Musharraf gave some very direct answers to Stewart, who wasn't holding back in his questions.

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Annie is going to give her usual impressions of last night's Daily Show later today, but I just wanted to mention something about last night's guest, Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. When I heard that he was actually going to be on the show, my first reaction was the same as everyone else's: "Whaaaaa?"

Sitting heads of state don't visit TDS, and it's interesting that the first one is one that the U.S. has a friendly but tense relationship with. Remember that Pakistan, especially along the Afghani border, has been "terror central" for years, and many of the people in the country do not support Musharraf's alignment with the Bush administration since 9/11. So I was wondering how Jon Stewart was going to handle all this. I shouldn't have worried; he did a really great job.