Pakistan’s Looming Election Doesn’t Bode Well for U.S. Interests

Cybercast News Service ^ | May 6, 2013 | Patrick Goodenough

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When Pakistani voters go to the polls later this week, the choice they face includes parties tainted by corruption allegations and those led by politicians appealing to anti-Western sentiment.

The man favored to become Pakistan’s next prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, on Saturday called into question the U.S.-backed campaign by the Pakistani military against Taliban insurgents in the country.

“I think guns and bullets are always not the answer to such problems,” Sharif, a former two-term prime minister who was overthrown in a 1999 military coup led by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, told the Reuters wire service.

In a separate interview with India’s CNN-IBN, Sharif said that “engagement” and dialogue with the Taliban should be pursued. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a conglomeration of a dozen militant organizations, is allied to al-Qaeda and Taliban factions in neighboring Afghanistan. …

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US leftists turn the clock back to before 1999. Talk about a literal manifestation of the pre-9/11 mentality.

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Pakistan is a festering boil on the world’s backside!

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Pakistan has elections accompanied by LOTS of flying bullets. And not all elections are determined at the ballot box alone.

It is largely whoever controls the access to the polling centers.

Nope, no corruption here, just move along.

Now look, those accursed Americans have had Muslims shooting at other Muslims. Is that any way to run a country?

Oh, wait. Muslims shoot at other Muslims anyway, just for target practice.

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Ephemeral Global Tyrany and Genocide. The statisticians are sure the end is coming up sooner than later. They might be right of the next caliphate is just around the corner.