Be afraid about the latest events in this Muslim paradise! Be very, very afraid!
Posted on 08/24/2008 8:20:26 AM PDT by Zakeet
Pakistan's governing coalition is on the verge of collapse less than a week after the partners successfully forced out the country's former army chief and president, Pervez Musharraf.
The Pakistan Muslim League (N) will meet Monday to decide whether to abandon support for the Pakistan People's Party, the coalition's senior partner, according to a spokesman for the Pakistan Muslim League, Ahsan Iqbal. Mr. Iqbal says the Pakistan People's Party has "unilaterally" taken recent decisions, casting a pall over a political partnership formed after February's parliamentary elections. The coalition's two main parties have split sharply over the restoration of judges that Mr. Musharraf had ousted, as well as who his successor should be.
"In a way, they are trying to drive us out of the coalition," said Mr. Iqbal in a telephone interview. "It seems they've made up their minds they want to do it themselves."
The Pakistan Muslim League (N) wants the judges restored on Monday and presidential elections scheduled for Sept. 6 to choose Mr. Musharraf's successor to be postponed by one month to give the party time to nominate its own candidate or agree on a joint candidate. A pullout from the Pakistan Muslim League would force the coalition leader to hunt for new political partners to maintain a majority in parliament.
The Pakistan People's Party has put forward its leader, Asif Ali Zardari, to replace Mr. Musharraf. On Saturday, Mr. Zardari, widower to slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, agreed to run for the post in a vote by an electoral college.
Another source of tension is the restoration of judges. The Pakistan People's Party has delayed returning some 60 judges to their jobs, after they were dismissed by Mr. Musharraf during a temporary state of emergency last year.
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Be afraid about the latest events in this Muslim paradise! Be very, very afraid!
NO government means even more freedom for the terrorists hiding in the totally tribal areas in the mountains. Cuidado!
Sometimes you have to sit back and say that these people couldn’t run a sh**house.
This dump is going to wind up like another Iran but with fully functioning ICBM’s.
Well, isn’t that just great.
Anarchy in a country overrun with fanatical Muslims.
With nuclear weapons.
If things look bad from where we stand, imagine the view from India.
Getting Ugly.
...might as well let it happen, then we will have no organized resistance when we finally go into Northern Pakistan and root out those two rats and their henchmen. As for Pakistan, a coalition of western governments can go in and seize the Nuclear facilities in the interest of preventing Al Quada from getting its hands on them. Of course, the left will say that there were no WMDs in Pakistan either. LOL
Pakistan is going to fall apart before the month is up. They made a very, very big mistake in forcing Musharraf to resign.
Power will go to the ruthless and the moderate Muslim civil society will get a harsh reminder of how things work again. ISI sponsored coup (not bloodless) within the year and more tribal activity. Why did we stop at the border when we had Osama on the run I’ll never figure out.
Anywho here is to the hope of getting a new coalition in power and trying to help things before this next wave of bombings gets underway. Keep up the good work with the pings!
Can Obama make the decisions to keep nukes out of the hands of Pakistani and Iranian terrorists and keep the U.S. safe? There is no chance he could or would stand up to these maniacs.
Only the U.S. will act against Pakistani terrorists. The Europeans are afraid to offend anyone much less attack them. They think they are enlightened. Airstrikes are in order for all known Pakistani nuclear facilities if the government falls. It must be immediate.
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