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2005-04-05 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Fred 2005-04-05 10:27:24 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 But were any beards insulted?

Posted by Spot 2005-04-05 8:37:33 AM|| 2005-04-05 8:37:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 an entire country with a majority population of societally-stunted emotional children. Whackos abound, and Perv is riding the tiger

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-05 9:12:42 AM|| 2005-04-05 9:12:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Any reason why we can't evacuate all the women and leave the men to the Punjab in pieces?

I imagine quite a few of the women support the nutjobbery around them.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-04-05 9:34:07 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-04-05 9:34:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 help me - i though PML-N was being cultivated by Perv - that they go with MMA on an issue that is provoking the moderates, seems an open defiance of Perv. PPP, despite earlier support for the Taliban, is again acting as polar opposite to the MMA, and willing to defend the moderates and secularists in Pak society. It really seems Perv and PPP together could take a stand against MMA, esp. with MMA making mistakes, and with the global tide turning. Can they overcome Perv objections to PPP corruption, and PPP objections to Pervs militarism?

Also - IIUC - Punjab is less Islamist nutjobby than NWFP, Baluchistan, or perhaps even than Sind. Punjab is where the moderates and secularists can take a stand, I think.

BTW, treasury benches here means the govt supporters, does it not?

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-04-05 10:10:54 AM|| 2005-04-05 10:10:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 And if Sen. Booby Byrd hears about this "mixed race", he'll be against it, too!

Posted by OldeForce 2005-04-05 5:15:44 PM|| 2005-04-05 5:15:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The PML is the main conservative party in Pakistan, and it's various factions have generally always been sympathetic to the Islamists aims. Before Musharraf came to power in his coup, the PML Prime Minister was going to introduce Shariah laws based on what the Taliban were doing in Afghanistan, and most Pakistan Muslim Leaguers were just as supportive as the Islamists.

Also, the Punjab is probably the second strongest bastion of Islamism in Pakistan, after the NWFP. The average Sindhi and Baluchi has never supported the Islamists to a great extent, the only votes that the Islamists get in those provinces are from (mostly Pashtun) immigrants. Some Punjabi cities like Gujranwala have become quite extremist over the years, and most of them are governed by members of the ostensibly moderate Pakistan Muslim League.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-04-05 11:46:59 PM|| 2005-04-05 11:46:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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