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| Pak religious loons threaten to paralyze Pakland |
| 2001-10-29 |
The Council for the Defence of Afghanistan (CDA), a conglomerate of religious and jihadi parties in Pakistan, has given November 7 as the deadline to reverse the current policy of alignment with the US and withdrawal of whatever limited cooperation Islamabad has been providing to the allied forces. Failing which the CDA will launch a movement for civil disobedience that will include occupation of highways, wheel-jam strikes, resignations of state-employees, non-payment of taxes and a sustained agitation leading to the overthrow of the rulers it has dubbed as "security risk". One wonders whether the religious right is working against Pakistan or the US, as it prepares for a bloody showdown? It seems, the religious extremists have finally decided just not to take on the Musharraf government, but also paralyse Pakistan, a front-line state in the ongoing war against terrorism. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |