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India-Pakistan
Pakistan's Imran Khan attracts 100,000 to rally
2011-12-26
More details on the story from yesterday.
[AFP] Over 100,000 people rallied in support of cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
 Sunday in Pakistain's port city of Bloody Karachi, a local official said, boosting his image as a rising political force.
Or confirming the inability of Pakistanis to count -- it's got to be one or the other.
Khan, 59, leader of the opposition Movement for Justice Party, is scheduled to address the growing crowd late Sunday. Many of them enthusiastically waved his party's green and red flag and danced to the beating of drums.

"We estimate that more than 100,000 people have gathered," Javed Odho, a senior police official at the site, told AFP.

His October 30 rally in Lahore also drew more than 100,000 supporters.

Khan's national profile was cemented as the captain of the only Pak cricket team to clinch the World Cup.

The 1992 victory has helped propel Khan toward becoming the troubled nation's next Prime Minister as he leads an anti-graft revolution, with some politicians having already left their own parties to join Khan's camp.

Among the defectors is former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi, who left the ruling Pakistain Peoples Party, led by embattled President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
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#3  1) Promise benefits from nothing
2) **
3) Profit!

format stolen from AOSHQ Unicorn-shitting Skittles Obama macro
Posted by: Frank G   2011-12-26 23:08  

#2  First, he will pose as Jimmy Hoffa, _back from vacation_...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-12-26 19:21  

#1  Khan is promising an "Islamic welfare state" that will "break the begging bowl" of poverty.

He might well get elected on that platform. Or rather, that slogan, since the details of how that is to be accomplished are .... scanty.
Posted by: lotp   2011-12-26 18:22  

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