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[egan]

Up to 500 judges, lawyers, and political activists have been arrested.

[gauthier92]

I never consider much of it.... What a swell guy.  This is no spur-of-the-moment "state of emergency" he's got going on.  There's been some time spent producing up lists of everyone they never like, or who doesn't like them, or who may not like them at some point in the future.  That took some thought and preparing.   I hear they started knocking on doors around Lahore about the time Musharraf was on national Television last evening explaining that unfortunately he was getting forced to take these actions to "combat terrorism and extremism."  Some politicians like Imran Khan who opposed Musharraf in the current presidential elections(in which he was not, legally, entitled to run, but that's just a technicality of course) have been placed beneath property arrest and informed this will be in effect for 90 days.  Some have just been dragged down to the regional pokey.  Some, like former PM Bhutto, are becoming watched like hawks but have nevertheless been allowed their "freedom," such as it is.  The press has been told in no uncertain terms that any media outlet which reports something detrimental to "the ideology of Pakistan or the integrity of Pakistan"(which probably signifies "not good to Musharraf") will have its assets seized and its personnel arrested.  This has already happened to at least a single Tv network, AAJ-Television, whose broadcast gear was seized yesterday.   And now--what a surprise--Mussharaf's government has announced that the parliamentary elections scheduled for January will be postponed "indefinitely."   That pesky democracy.    Just when you believe you have got it on track, somebody decides to run against you in an election, or a newspaper prints "damaging news" about you, which hurts you and the country you're trying to control.   You have got individuals marching in the streets due to the fact they don't like the country who's propping you up, and you've got other men and women marching in the streets since they don't like the garments you wear to work when you're attempting to play Initial Citizen-Soldier.  America is yammering in a single ear about how important free of charge elections are, and in the other ear they are whispering that you need to have to crack down on those crazy Islamic militants who've been running wild in the tribal locations of the nation.  What's a poor dictator to do, anyway?   Musharraf clearly has decided that the 1st order of enterprise is to insure his personal job.  Almost everything else can, and apparently will, wait.   roseredcity's Recommendations Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, then Army, adn America's War Terror Amazon List Price: $25.95 Used from: $19.68 Average Buyer Rating: four.5 out of five(primarily based on 7 reviews) In the Line of Fire: A Memoir Amazon List Cost: $28.00 Employed from: $2.05 Typical Client Rating: 3.5 out of 5(primarily based on 131 testimonials) Crude Politics : How Bush's Oil Cronies Hijacked the War on Terrorism Amazon List Cost: $24.99 Utilized from: $.01 Average Buyer Rating: four. out of five(primarily based on 7 reviews) roseredcity 75 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please confirm your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

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[Hasan]

I was watching this on the news last night.   Have you read Atomic Bazaar by William langewiesche?   http://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Bazaar-Rise-Nuclear-Poor/dp/0374106789/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6140638-7410429?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194200022&sr=1-1   Pakistan is the most unstable country in the world today, and its intelligence service is ranked right up in the top three with the Israeli and U.S. intelligence services...   The country is swarming with Islamic extremists, and there is a lot of support for them in the local population. Musharraf has tried to, in some cases, quell this, but he is dealing with a very fragile situation in terms of his power base...   So this is a bad move. It's going to push the country towards more violence and destabilize it even more, as Bhutto said, but this is the way of unstable governments. They collapse, and are usually replaced by military dictatorships.   I have read a fair number of think tank scenarios on potential ways a third world war could start, and always ranking up there at the top is a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir province...

[sylvester37]

Typical 3rd World military coup by a dictator on his last legs. Hopefully not an excuse for Dubya to start another war when the mujahedeen toss him out. Osama ben Raghead's Laugh o' The Day.

[Hawley]

Normal Typical 3rd World military coup by a dictator on his last legs. Hopefully not an excuse for Dubya to start another war when the mujahedeen toss him out. Osama ben Raghead's Laugh o' The Day. JBENZ 75 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Toran]

I think people who have the taste of power will generally do anything to keep it especially in third world countries.  Aren't you glad they are our "friends" helping us fight terrorism? Schelli 75 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Nehemiah]

especially in third world countries.  Aren't you glad they are our "friends" helping us fight terrorism?