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2012-01-14 India-Pakistan

Save Me! Pak PM Pleads for Brit Support vs. Military Coup

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Posted by trailing wife 2012-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#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|| 2012-01-14 01:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-01-14 03:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-01-14 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Paul, sort of like a Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny & Alexei Kosygin kinky group marriage?

Posted by Water Modem 2012-01-14 08:53|| 2012-01-14 08:53|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-01-14 10:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-01-14 10:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-01-14 15:07|| Front Page Top

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