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2008-09-01 India-Pakistan

US officials worried about Zardari's control over N-arsenal

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Posted by john frum 2008-09-01 09:39|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 a Pak with mental problems? Whoda thunk it?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-01 10:40|| 2008-09-01 10:40|| Front Page Top

#2 For the region that sems a rather normal abnormality, I'd consider him "Normaly Deranged" and provide intensive "Correction, such as issuing a Koran with perforated tear-out pages, and no toilet paper.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-09-01 12:13|| 2008-09-01 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 So on the one side of the coalition we have Zardari, whose party helped Musharraf sack the Islamicist judges.

On the other side we have the Islamicists barely disguised within Sharif's party the Muslim League-N who withdrew from the government and went into opposition late last week because the PPP did not act to restore those judges to power.

Musharraf was many unpalatable things but this is what we get with his absence. And with the intrigue in Islamabad about internal power, all pressure is off the Afghan border regions and the Taliban there.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-01 12:22|| 2008-09-01 12:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Zadari will never even see a nuke, far less have partial control over one.
The Pak military keeps control no matter what civilian government is supposedly in power.

Posted by john frum 2008-09-01 13:18|| 2008-09-01 13:18|| Front Page Top

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