Posted on 08/02/2007 11:30:04 AM PDT by blam
Disaster looms in land built for peace and harmony
Politicians fear civil war as Musharraf's regime is battered by suicide attacks, civilian revolt and American threats
Declan Walsh in Islamabad
Thursday August 2, 2007
The Guardian (UK)
Lawyers celebrate after the Pakistani supreme court threw out President Perveaz Musharraf's case against the chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Photograph: T Mughal/EPA
Decorum was abandoned as accusations ricocheted between the wood-panelled walls of Pakistan's national assembly on Monday night. "Murderers! Murderers of innocent people!" screamed an MP from a religious party, his yellow turban shaking as he wagged a finger towards the government benches. Five female parliamentarians, their faces concealed behind black and white burkas, slapped the benches with open palms. Another mullah stood up and started shouting. The speaker strained to maintain order.
Others were less captivated by the debate on last month's siege of the Red Mosque, in which more than 100 people died. One man snoozed at his desk. Across the vast hall others started whispered conversations. And high above them Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a dapper man with a pinched, clean-shaven face, looked on impassively from his giant portrait on the wall. In August 1947 Jinnah founded Pakistan in the hope of forging a homeland where the subcontinent's Muslims could live in peace and harmony. Sixty years later, it is going badly wrong. The military runs the country, headed by a dictatorial and unpopular general. Huge protests have filled the streets, the courts are defiant and the Taliban control the tribal belt. So, in part, does al-Qaida, and the United States is threatening to use force. Suicide blasts have rocked the big cities - and there may be worse to come.
President Pervez Musharraf's rule has been "catastrophic" but his regime could yet "turn really
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muslims want to rule the world, but they can’t even rule themselves. Pathetic...and dangerous.
No country occupied by so many certifiable lunatics can stand for long.....
Pakistan, by virtue of its virulent strain of Islam and it’s decades long practice of being home to the most violence prone madrases and adherents of Islam was preordained to destroy themselves or be destroyed by others in self defense....
If the assassins succeed in killing General Musharraf - the wheels of death will start rolling and gather speed.
"Where's Rage Boy?" is the new "Where's Waldo?". He's gotta be in there somewhere.
Islam = Death and misery.
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