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India-Pakistan
'Pakistan an international migraine'
2008-12-03
Former United States secretary of state Madeleine Albright described Pakistan as an 'international migraine' on Tuesday.
Usually I disagree with Madame Albright almost reflexively. This time she nailed it in one.
Counting elements such as nuclear weapons, terrorism, extremism, corruption and poor economic situation, she said that the important location of Pakistan converted every national issue into an international one. She said that the current US secretary of state, who was on her way to India, had a tough job ahead of her.

In the wake of tensions between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, Albright said that President Asif Ali Zardari was trying hard to deal with the issue at hand. She said that Zardari was working to gain control and develop a country that was a very difficult place to administer.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Burgess Meredith as The Penguin. Tell me you don't see it
Posted by: Frank G   2008-12-03 21:53  

#8  Love her brooch. Complements both her turkey wattle and her meaty gams ( the latter not shown so as to protect the children).
Posted by: remoteman   2008-12-03 17:27  

#7  Pakistan had nuclear weapons many years before the 1998 tests. They cold tested in 1983 and exploded a weapon at the Chinese Lop Nur range the next year.
They threatened India with nuclear weapons during the Brass Tacks exercise a few years later
Posted by: john frum   2008-12-03 14:14  

#6  OK. But who was Secretary of State when Pakistan went nuclear?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2008-12-03 12:47  

#5  Maybe its a tumor.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-12-03 11:38  

#4  I would have went with rectal wart, but migraine, yeah, I guess.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-12-03 09:54  

#3  Pakistan,Iran and Saudi Arabia are more than a migraine they need a brain transplant!!!!
Posted by: Paul2   2008-12-03 07:20  

#2  The most appropriate metaphoric illness for pakistain is Piles IMHO.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2008-12-03 04:24  

#1  Pakistan is more like an international boil on the a$$ end of the body politic that needs lancing and disinfectant.

There, fixed.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, AK   2008-12-03 04:13  

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