Pakistan - country of the moment

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.