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| ’MMA ready to give Musharraf short time to shed uniform’ |
| 2003-06-05 |
| The Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has said it is ready to give President General Pervez Musharraf "a short time" to take off his military uniform so that a national crisis could be averted. I'm going to have a mental picture of a naked Perv in my head all day. Yuck. "General Musharraf should accept our position, otherwise the PML-QA government will not be safe," Maulana Samiul Haq, central leader of the MMA, said in an interview. He hoped that the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Quid-e-Azam would accept all the demands of the opposition. That sounds like a "or else" to me. He said he did not agree with the stance taken by some component parties of the MMA about the controversial LFO, which institutionalises military's role in the government, but he was in favour of arriving at a consensus with the government. Samiul Haq described MMA government's Islamisation policies in the NWFP as a step in the right direction. Of course he does He also claimed that the federal government was conspiring against them, and threatened "if they try to demolish our government, we will hit back in the Centre." Samiul Haq, who is also chief of his own faction of the Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI), said the resignation by district Nazims of the NWFP was part of the federal government's attempts to destabilise the MMA government in the province. "Why is the federal government releasing Rs 27 billion to the NWFP government?" he asked. He said he believed that Federal Minister for Water and Power Aftab Ahmad Sherpao might have instigated the Nazims' action. Aftab better have somebody start his car for him. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 When I read about things like the instability in Pakistan, Iran near having nukes, China and Russia still far from "democratic-market economy-stable-societies", continueing problems in Afghanistan and Iraq, etc.... I think about the beginnings of the 20th, 19th, and if memory serves, the 18th century. They all started with brushfire wars that eventually became full blown "forrest fire" wars that shook Western Civilization to its roots, and usually during the first two decades. And with each century more of the rest of the globe has been drawn into the flames. And that today the potential flames include those of the atom. Just my pessimistic side thinking out loud. |
| Posted by: Rifle308 2003-06-05 11:32:44 |
| #1 I know others here disagree, but it would seem like MMA is getting a bit of the Juche-courage in their rants. They shouldn't make threats they can't deliver on, especially if they're jugged or dead. I wouldn't be surprised to see a purge of their backers in the ISI and army if Perv wants to stay in power |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-06-05 09:06:05 |