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India-Pakistan
Save Me! Pak PM Pleads for Brit Support vs. Military Coup
2012-01-14
  • He makes call as military and the civilian government are at loggerheads

  • Supreme Court investigates memo sent to Washington also pleading for intervention following the aftermath of the bin Laden raid

  • Court threatens to dismiss Prime Minister and President over failure to act on corruption inquiry

  • Crucial Supreme Court sitting on Monday may spark a constitutional showdown

  • Foreign Secretary William Hague calls for calm during 'very tense situation'
Pakistains prime minister has called Britannia's most senior diplomat in the country to warn that the Pakistain Army may be on the brink of staging a military coup.

Officials for both Britannia and Islamabad confirmed that Prime Minister Yousuf Reza Gilani placed a 'panicky' call to High Commissioner Adam Thomson expressing his fears for the stability of the nuclear-armed country. He stated that there was a very real fear that the army, under General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
, might overthrow the government or back possible moves by the Supreme Court to topple the civilian leadership. And he asked the High Commissioner for Britannia to support his embattled government.

But today Foreign Secretary William Hague appealed for calm while refusing to comment on claims that Gilani had sent out a plea for help. He told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that there were a 'lot of risks' and urged all parties in the country to 'ensure stabililty'.
 
He added: 'We are not going to take sides in their internal political arguments. That is a matter for the people of Pakistain.''
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  Musharraf yes g(r)omgoru, things appeared better. Those I spoke to here from Pakistain hated him. If he does go back I don't see him lasting long.
Just my opinion. China is the one to watch. They would like nothing better than to cause trouble for India. Should he throw in with them perhaps.
Posted by: Dale   2012-01-14 15:07  

#6  I can't think of any other reason Perv would want to return, except that the military has had enough of the b.s., and figures that he commands enough respect to take charge again, so has asked him.

All told, I think Perv is probably the right man for the job, because he is the one example of when a semi-dictator is a better alternative, that being when a fractured country needs unification. Compare him to Bismark or Mazzini of Italy.

Back in the saddle, his first prerogative is to restore US funding.

He should not be underestimated, as his biography suggests.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-01-14 10:28  

#5  Help me?
As in getting me the He!! out of here in one piece help?
Maybe he could fly out in one of those crack-infested A380s (plus it makes a lovely target)
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2012-01-14 10:13  

#4  Paul, sort of like a Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny & Alexei Kosygin kinky group marriage?
Posted by: Water Modem   2012-01-14 08:53  

#3  Kayani does not like the limelight unlike Perv so if there is a military coup will Perv come back to power as President?
Posted by: Paul    2012-01-14 06:37  

#2  This part confuses me:

"While Pakistan's judiciary are widely seen as both corrupt and ineffectual, they - unlike the army and the judges - have some legitimacy because they were elected to office."

How is "the judiciary" unlike the "judges"?
Posted by: crosspatch   2012-01-14 03:25  

#1  Is it just me, or Paks were a lot more cooperative (not that it says much) under Musharraf?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-01-14 01:58  

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