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India-Pakistan
Benazir: 'I will rid Pakistan of extremism, dictatorship'
2007-10-18
Former premier Benazir Bhutto pledged on Wednesday that she would return to Pakistan to rid it of extremism and dictatorship by bringing in democracy. Ms Bhutto is due to arrive in Karachi today at around 1:00pm.
Good luck with that, Benazir. If you rid Pakistain of extremism and dictatorship it'll be someplace else. Maybe Paraguay. That's a pretty long commute to Karachi.
“Tomorrow (Thursday) at this time we will be on board the plane for Karachi, which is a day that I and all the people in Pakistan who love democracy and who believe in fundamental human rights have been waiting for,” the two-time premier told a press conference in Dubai, flanked by her two daughters and her husband Gomez Asif Zardari.

“Pakistan’s future is at stake and I am going to Pakistan with a mission to see a peaceful transition to democracy,” she said. “My return heralds for the people of Pakistan the turn of the wheel from dictatorship to democracy, from exploitation to empowerment, from violence to peace.”

She said she wanted to create for the people of Pakistan a country “where they have opportunities for employment, economic well-being, the primacy of civilian rule and a society free of extremism”.
They'll shoot you as soon as you say "secular state." Without it, the rest is impossible.
“I am very proud of what my mother is doing, and not only my mother, but what my whole family is doing,” said Bakhtawar, Bhutto’s elder daughter.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Benazir: 'I will rid Pakistan of extremism, dictatorship'

What's she going to do, kill all the pakis and import esquimoux? Nothing short of that will accomplish what she's claiming she'll do. Corruption's in the genes of all pakis, and both dominant and recessive among the Pashtuns.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-10-18 21:36  

#6  Well, well, it certainly didn't take long for them to try and kill her.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-18 19:44  

#5  Fred I was thinking the same thing, good luck lady. Cause when you're talking extremism what you are really saying is islam itself.

Ah she's kind of hot in a nerdy way.
Posted by: Icerigger   2007-10-18 17:17  

#4  From what I've heard of her she'll replace them with the Pakistani equivalent of the Mafia; with herself as Godfather (mother?)
Posted by: AlanC   2007-10-18 14:30  

#3  Beware, she has a Nancy Pelosi in Syria look to her.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-10-18 11:00  

#2  Depends on what her definition of extremism is, I suppose.
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-10-18 01:08  

#1  Benazir: 'I will rid Pakistan of extremism, dictatorship'

She'll need to survive more than a few weeks in order to do that.
Three words: Very. Low. Odds.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-18 00:49  

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