rssShowdown in Pakistan Averted!
Monday, March 16, 2009 at 8:43 am
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The perils of writing posts last night and timing them for release in the morning!
Meet re-Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. His reinstatement meets the basic demand of Nawaz Sharif’s Long March to Islamabad. What’s more, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani announced that the government will petition for the reversal of a ruling from last month forbidding both Sharif and his brother for running for office. As a result, Sharif just now called off the Long March. Crisis apparently averted. (h/t Juan Cole.)
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Comment posted March 17, 2009 @ 12:16 am
Thank you for pleading guilty. At least you were honest. Sorry for being so harsh.
Anyway, Sunday's events would have convicted you had you not plead guilty.
Please don't be so presumptuous about Pakistan. There are more political possibilities there than coups.
It's a country of 160 million. It can be reasonably complex. Politics and society there can move in multiple trajectories at the same time.
While things were heated in Lahore, some villager in rural Sindh probably had no idea what the hell was going on. The Taliban have made gains in the NWFP, but Lahore's red light district is still pretty active.
Camden, NJ is hell on earth, but things are fine in Saddle River. You're fine where you live in DC, but it's a different universe in Anacostia or elsewhere in southeast, where you'd probably not walk at night.
So countries can have areas within close proximity of one another but on opposite spectrums in terms of class, crime, etc.
In conclusion, please go back to commenting on the bailout.
Comment posted March 17, 2009 @ 7:16 am
Thank you for pleading guilty. At least you were honest. Sorry for being so harsh.
Anyway, Sunday's events would have convicted you had you not plead guilty.
Please don't be so presumptuous about Pakistan. There are more political possibilities there than coups.
It's a country of 160 million. It can be reasonably complex. Politics and society there can move in multiple trajectories at the same time.
While things were heated in Lahore, some villager in rural Sindh probably had no idea what the hell was going on. The Taliban have made gains in the NWFP, but Lahore's red light district is still pretty active.
Camden, NJ is hell on earth, but things are fine in Saddle River. You're fine where you live in DC, but it's a different universe in Anacostia or elsewhere in southeast, where you'd probably not walk at night.
So countries can have areas within close proximity of one another but on opposite spectrums in terms of class, crime, etc.
In conclusion, please go back to commenting on the bailout.
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