Pakistan - country of the moment

The White House telling ol' Mushy he shouldn't do stuff that isn't in Pakistan's constitution because that would be wrong: lol

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002700.php

what an ally!

why are we propping this asshole up again?

he's a valued castmember

heckuvajob Brownie

I just want to say I love this photo:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/29/world/29pstan-span-600.jpg

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

whoa!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/asia/15pstan.html

US missile strike in Waziristan

Send for Senator John McCain!

US has been doing this for months, surely?

"COVERT"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/washington/21policy.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

Beeb: "civil war" in Pakistan; massive population movement

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8051591.stm

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?

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?

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/continuing_pakistani_floods.html

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

So, Imran Khan

I'm kinda concerned about this dude and his cabinet

Go on...

I wouldn't trust Imran Khan as far as I could throw him - which, er, less than he could throw himself, er...

the final solution to the Kashmir question sounds a bit ominous.

although they seem to be proposing dialogue.

Just what the world needs, another entitled poshboy born to lead.

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.

I think I dislike him even more than Trump tbh.

yeah his cabinet seems to have a bunch of old Musharraf hands in it which doesn't bode well.

Hardline Islamist; lifelong womaniser

Musharraf once embarrassingly tried to flirt with /chat up C Rice.

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.

fine. the other bit ain't wrong though

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.