Biden warns Musharraf on Pakistan elections

Presidential hopeful Joe Biden yesterday told Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf there will be consequences if his elections are in any way shoddy.
Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he spoke with the embattled president by phone. Biden said U.S. aid to that country may be in doubt if the upcoming elections don't meet expectations.
"I want to make it clear, for the United States of America to be willing to support Pakistan the way we have in the past, it rests on this transition to democracy being real. If this election is not fair and open, there will be consequences for it, in terms of our participating in aid," Biden said he told Musharraf.