Election results are bad for Musharraf: Robert Gates

The US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said that the polls results had been bad for Mr Musharraf but the people of Pakistan have to decide his future role.
Gates in an interview to British news channel said the US hoped to continue working with Musharraf he described as the elected president of Pakistan.
Speaking in Delhi, he said, “We will back democratically elected leaders in Pakistan and work with both the president and the new prime minister.” Mr Gates said the previous administration’s efforts to negotiate with the militants had not worked out. “Even the Musharraf government tried talking and doing deals in Waziristan. That didn’t work out very well,” he said. “Maybe this new government in Pakistan will have to go through the same experience itself.”