Pakistan - country of the moment

Musharraf imposes emergency rule, surrounds supreme court justices with police, blacks out all independent news, suspends the constitution

Also reports that a list of prominent journalists and opposition leaders has been put together, with the intention of detaining them.

I'm surprised he hasn't been assassinated yet

Maybe the plan is for Bush to leave office having put everything back the way it was to start with. Fun fun!

bush can never put back my heart

I'm surprised he hasn't been assassinated yet

god, i know, right? I've been saying this since 2001.

**potential naive comment alert**

Wouldn't it be pretty hard to assasinate the leader of a military, who would presumably be better protected than anyone else? Unless the assassin was in the military himself?

Plz link to dozens of military leaders who have been assasinated now, thanks.

Unless the assassin was in the military himself?

or secret service. it is pretty 'impressive' he hasn't been. weird thread, lotta less-o-two-eviling.

heave ho is on the case

Why is Pakistan such a rubbish country?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2222/1843317034_369b691785.jpg

Chief Justice arrested

Asshole in Chief is on TV right now telling us how he "had to take this decision"

Thank the lord for 6 years of continuing U.S. support.

bush said, i did.

I notice Musharaf is doing his best to confirm Pakistan's lolcountry creditentials. Well done.

NO MORE POLITICAL TALK SHOWS BUT OMG Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers ON RIGHT NOW

Why is Pakistan such a rubbish country?

Hey they got nukes, bit o' respect there, boy!

Yeh, this kinda thing is normally for lols, but all this jujst makes it more likely that someone'll fall on the nuke button accidentally, which'll make them all countries start attacking each other with nukes WWI-style.

(sorry for my broken english there, it's the phear)

OMG, it is going to be just like the card game Nuclear War.

what's more pathetically funny, Mushy comparing himself to Lincoln suspending habeas corpus last weekend or W's bleating that "Ya oughta take of fyer uniform"?

yeah, placing bhutto under house arrest is high-larious

The White House telling ol' Mushy he shouldn't do stuff that isn't in Pakistan's constitution because that would be wrong: lol

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002700.php

what an ally!

why are we propping this asshole up again?

he's a valued castmember

heckuvajob Brownie

I just want to say I love this photo:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/29/world/29pstan-span-600.jpg

well, Shrillary doesn't have to tongue-lash Obama on this anymore... we're already at it.

U.S. air strike in tribal area of Pakistan kills 9

whoa!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/asia/15pstan.html

US missile strike in Waziristan

Send for Senator John McCain!

US has been doing this for months, surely?

"COVERT"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/washington/21policy.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

Beeb: "civil war" in Pakistan; massive population movement

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8051591.stm

The UN says nearly one million people have fled in the past two weeks.

So do any USA news organizations have more than a couple of stringers covering this?

sooo, the whole damn country is underwater? we're not really talking about it are we. i hardly know what to say.

surely it's not all wrong to immediately think, will this make it easier or harder to get out of afghanistan?

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/continuing_pakistani_floods.html

he is the best leader besides being an inteligent and strong general..i pray for his long successful life..country n nation need him.overtime he has proved his sincerities too

― aqeel kamgar

So, Imran Khan

I'm kinda concerned about this dude and his cabinet

Go on...

I wouldn't trust Imran Khan as far as I could throw him - which, er, less than he could throw himself, er...

the final solution to the Kashmir question sounds a bit ominous.

although they seem to be proposing dialogue.

Just what the world needs, another entitled poshboy born to lead.

he was on that godawful hardtalk on BBC WS a few weeks back. Good luck Pakistan, but it is the military that is really pulling the strings.

I think I dislike him even more than Trump tbh.

yeah his cabinet seems to have a bunch of old Musharraf hands in it which doesn't bode well.

Hardline Islamist; lifelong womaniser

Musharraf once embarrassingly tried to flirt with /chat up C Rice.

Khan isn’t a hardline Islamist. Most of the noise around that came from his proposal to negotiate with the Taliban in tribal areas - which is pretty much now US policy in Afghanistan, where they can. Islamist parties barely won any seats at the election.

fine. the other bit ain't wrong though

https://apnews.com/c586d0f73fe249718ec06f6867b0244e

An AP investigation earlier this year revealed how Pakistan’s Christian minority has become a new target of brokers who pay impoverished parents to marry off their daughters, some of them teenagers, to Chinese husbands who return with them to their homeland. Many of the brides are then isolated and abused or forced into prostitution in China, often contacting home and pleading to be brought back. The AP spoke to police and court officials and more than a dozen brides — some of whom made it back to Pakistan, others who remained trapped in China — as well as remorseful parents, neighbors, relatives and human rights workers.

Christians are targeted because they are one of the poorest communities in Muslim-majority Pakistan. The trafficking rings are made up of Chinese and Pakistani middlemen and include Christian ministers, mostly from small evangelical churches, who get bribes to urge their flock to sell their daughters. Investigators have also turned up at least one Muslim cleric running a marriage bureau from his madrassa, or religious school.