Pakistan
US Afghan Strike so Bloody, Karzai Begs for Mercy; Pakistan Joins the Act.
Actually, a better headline would be ‘Karzai plays leader, pretends to confront the United States.’ He was unhappy his master’s attacks have killed so many civilians. In one bombing spree this week, an estimated 147 civilians from two nearby villages lost their lives. Pakistan is following suit with civilian-terrorizing campaigns on its own territory. Karzai [...]
Friedman Watch: Thomas Friedman Gone Wild
In today’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman outdid himself in a piece titled, simply, “Pakistan.” He made the interesting observation that there was not a mass protest in Pakistan against the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, akin to the ones seen in the wake of the publication of the Danish cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet, Mohammed, [...]
Pop-pop McCain Proud of Baby Sarah
Is it just me or is this the odd couple? In this interview with Katie Couric, the duo look like grandpa’s sticking up for his granddaughter against the mean “gotcha” journalists. She recites a very limited array of frames, repeating “terrorists” several times, as he tries to confuse with babble and charm with bubbily personality. [...]
The Mish ’3aarif Model: Bush and Arab Leaders Should Follow the Perv
Pervez Musharraf, America’s little buddy in Pakistan, stepped down after internal legal and political pressures closed in on him. The impending impeachment targeted him for some crimes that should be quite familiar to Arab AND American readers: “imposing a state of emergency last November, sacking judges and other alleged crimes, including violation of the constitution [...]
Metaphor of the Month
Tariq Ali compares American efforts to create a Bhutto-Musharraf power-sharing government in Pakistan to an arranged marriage.
How many Muslim women leaders can you name?
Charismatic, striking and politically sly, Benazir Bhutto, 54, was reared amid the privileges of Pakistan’s aristocracy and the ordeals of its turbulent politics. Smart, ambitious and resilient, she endured her father’s execution and her own imprisonment at the hands of a military dictator to become the country’s – and the Muslim world’s – first female [...]
The Pakistan Bhutto Party
Benazir Bhutto was a great verbal champion of democracy. I remember reading an article about a speaking tour she gave in the United States when she was PM. The article noted she used the word “democracy” roughly 60 times per speech. That however did not make Pakistan any more democratic but it did shift public [...]
Breaking News: Pakistan’s Bhutto Assassinated
A bomb blast at a Butto rally killed about 20 people, including former prime minister and political leader Benazir Bhutto. Butto recently returned to Pakistan to lead a pro-West, secular political opposition. She negotiated a power-sharing plan with current head Musharraf before her return. She went back to lead her Pakistan People’s Party in next [...]
We Welcome Pakistan to the League of Perpetual Emergency Law States
On behalf of several Arab states, the Palestinian Authority and Israel, KABOBfest welcomes Pakistan to the exclusive club of states under emergency law. Though these are long-time members of this esteemed, exceptional group, a Musharraf-led Pakistan should fit right in. Emergency law is such a nice way to negate implementation of high-handed ideals enumerated in [...]
Pakistan’s Musharraf: US Ally Goes Too Far
But that is not the problem, the real problem for the US with Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, suspending the constitutions and therefore civil liberties is that he could not avoid the negative publicity associated with it, and became more of a liability than an asset. The first reaction from the state department was regret, but [...]
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