― dave q, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kris, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― aqeel kamgar, Thursday, 25 December 2003 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
― , Thursday, 25 December 2003 20:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Musharraf imposes emergency rule, surrounds supreme court justices with police, blacks out all independent news, suspends the constitution
Also reports that a list of prominent journalists and opposition leaders has been put together, with the intention of detaining them.
― Z S, Saturday, 3 November 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm surprised he hasn't been assassinated yet
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 3 November 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe the plan is for Bush to leave office having put everything back the way it was to start with. Fun fun!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 November 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
bush can never put back my heart
― elan, Saturday, 3 November 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
god, i know, right? I've been saying this since 2001.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 3 November 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
**potential naive comment alert**
Wouldn't it be pretty hard to assasinate the leader of a military, who would presumably be better protected than anyone else? Unless the assassin was in the military himself?
― Z S, Saturday, 3 November 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Plz link to dozens of military leaders who have been assasinated now, thanks.
― Z S, Saturday, 3 November 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Unless the assassin was in the military himself?
or secret service. it is pretty 'impressive' he hasn't been. weird thread, lotta less-o-two-eviling.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 3 November 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
heave ho is on the case
― gershy, Saturday, 3 November 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Why is Pakistan such a rubbish country?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Saturday, 3 November 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2222/1843317034_369b691785.jpg
Chief Justice arrested
Asshole in Chief is on TV right now telling us how he "had to take this decision"
― Heave Ho, Saturday, 3 November 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Thank the lord for 6 years of continuing U.S. support.
― kingfish, Saturday, 3 November 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
bush said, i did.
― whatever, Saturday, 3 November 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I notice Musharaf is doing his best to confirm Pakistan's lolcountry creditentials. Well done.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 4 November 2007 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
NO MORE POLITICAL TALK SHOWS BUT OMG Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers ON RIGHT NOW
― Heave Ho, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey they got nukes, bit o' respect there, boy!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 10:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeh, this kinda thing is normally for lols, but all this jujst makes it more likely that someone'll fall on the nuke button accidentally, which'll make them all countries start attacking each other with nukes WWI-style.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
(sorry for my broken english there, it's the phear)
― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG, it is going to be just like the card game Nuclear War.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
what's more pathetically funny, Mushy comparing himself to Lincoln suspending habeas corpus last weekend or W's bleating that "Ya oughta take of fyer uniform"?
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, placing bhutto under house arrest is high-larious
― hstencil, Friday, 9 November 2007 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
The White House telling ol' Mushy he shouldn't do stuff that isn't in Pakistan's constitution because that would be wrong: lol
― StanM, Friday, 9 November 2007 07:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002700.php
― gabbneb, Friday, 11 January 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
what an ally!
why are we propping this asshole up again?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
he's a valued castmember
― the galena free practitioner, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
heckuvajob Brownie
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I just want to say I love this photo:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/29/world/29pstan-span-600.jpg
― Hurting 2, Friday, 29 February 2008 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
well, Shrillary doesn't have to tongue-lash Obama on this anymore... we're already at it.
U.S. air strike in tribal area of Pakistan kills 9
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 17 March 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/asia/15pstan.html
― goole, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
US missile strike in Waziristan
― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Monday, 22 December 2008 06:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Send for Senator John McCain!
― Aimless, Monday, 22 December 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
US has been doing this for months, surely?
― mensrightsguy (internet person), Monday, 22 December 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"COVERT"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/washington/21policy.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 21 February 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Beeb: "civil war" in Pakistan; massive population movement
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8051591.stm
― "the whale saw her" (gabbneb), Friday, 15 May 2009 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
The UN says nearly one million people have fled in the past two weeks.
So do any USA news organizations have more than a couple of stringers covering this?
― Aimless, Friday, 15 May 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
sooo, the whole damn country is underwater? we're not really talking about it are we. i hardly know what to say.
surely it's not all wrong to immediately think, will this make it easier or harder to get out of afghanistan?
― goole, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/continuing_pakistani_floods.html
― goole, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
he is the best leader besides being an inteligent and strong general..i pray for his long successful life..country n nation need him.overtime he has proved his sincerities too
― aqeel kamgar
― buzza, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
So, Imran Khan
― imago, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
I'm kinda concerned about this dude and his cabinet
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
Go on...
― imago, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't trust Imran Khan as far as I could throw him - which, er, less than he could throw himself, er...
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
the final solution to the Kashmir question sounds a bit ominous.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
although they seem to be proposing dialogue.
Just what the world needs, another entitled poshboy born to lead.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
he was on that godawful hardtalk on BBC WS a few weeks back. Good luck Pakistan, but it is the military that is really pulling the strings.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
I think I dislike him even more than Trump tbh.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
yeah his cabinet seems to have a bunch of old Musharraf hands in it which doesn't bode well.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
Hardline Islamist; lifelong womaniser
― imago, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
Musharraf once embarrassingly tried to flirt with /chat up C Rice.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
Khan isn’t a hardline Islamist. Most of the noise around that came from his proposal to negotiate with the Taliban in tribal areas - which is pretty much now US policy in Afghanistan, where they can. Islamist parties barely won any seats at the election.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
fine. the other bit ain't wrong though
― imago, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
https://apnews.com/c586d0f73fe249718ec06f6867b0244e
An AP investigation earlier this year revealed how Pakistan’s Christian minority has become a new target of brokers who pay impoverished parents to marry off their daughters, some of them teenagers, to Chinese husbands who return with them to their homeland. Many of the brides are then isolated and abused or forced into prostitution in China, often contacting home and pleading to be brought back. The AP spoke to police and court officials and more than a dozen brides — some of whom made it back to Pakistan, others who remained trapped in China — as well as remorseful parents, neighbors, relatives and human rights workers.Christians are targeted because they are one of the poorest communities in Muslim-majority Pakistan. The trafficking rings are made up of Chinese and Pakistani middlemen and include Christian ministers, mostly from small evangelical churches, who get bribes to urge their flock to sell their daughters. Investigators have also turned up at least one Muslim cleric running a marriage bureau from his madrassa, or religious school.
Christians are targeted because they are one of the poorest communities in Muslim-majority Pakistan. The trafficking rings are made up of Chinese and Pakistani middlemen and include Christian ministers, mostly from small evangelical churches, who get bribes to urge their flock to sell their daughters. Investigators have also turned up at least one Muslim cleric running a marriage bureau from his madrassa, or religious school.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link