Resign-When-Out-Of-Line Tradition

This thought provoking comment by Kuldip Nayar on an event which took place recently in the wake of Mumbai attacks, made me admit the need of being clean and how to be so:

Like Bhutto, Zardari assumed that he had all power. But he found that this was not so when the government first declared it would send the ISI chief to Delhi after having acceded to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s request in the wake of the Mumbai blasts and then was not able to do so. What should he have done? Admitted his helplessness in public? No ruler does. He could have resigned but Pakistan does not have a tradition of doing so.

Pakistan needs it badly, in fact any "goo-goo" state.