Comments on: Pakistan In Peril – by Stephen Brown

By: james267

james267 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:37:41 +0000

As long Pakistan continues the fight against militants, they help prevent terrioism from spreading and and gaining a foothold. What's amazing though is that by making your government stronger, you can begin to defeat the insurgents.....

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By: ratee

ratee — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:18:27 +0000

Well why should West (USA and UK in particular) be concerned about Pakistan's legal system? They are because they are the one's who implanted this Government by facilitating the NRO through their crony Musharraf. This law exepmted and protected the most corrupt Zaradari to get elected by this selective extra-judicial law as the President of Pakistant.

This has backfired and these politicians will now just have to prove their innocence in courts so whats your problem in the west? Why does it bother you?

Oh I forgot these are the same countries that support Karzai and are ready to lie about Iraq and then attack a poor small country. Yes I forget imperialism is still fresh and alive in this world!!!

By: ratee

ratee — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:04:34 +0000

These comments do not make sense as Pakistan Army is fighting the Terrorists. Zardari is part of the corruption that was under investigation while USA and UK facilitated their crony Gen Musharraf to scrap these old cases so to get their Peoples Party in power.

What is the problem with the west as whole of this wrong practice of selective extra-judicial laws are being challenged by a strong independent judiciary just because they want a servile incompetent weak President who is looking only after the imperialist interests of USA and UK!!

By: mjmotley

mjmotley — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:56:16 +0000

These article refers frequently to “elements” within the military and the ISI as from whence the threat is being posed, this no doubt is true. But elements are but parts of the whole and the article does not address those factors that have undoubtedly kept the Islamists at bay up till now. Namely where is last year's ranked #20 most powerful man in the world in all of this, what appears to be the inclination's of General Ashfaq Kayani?

Just last year he had replaced all the pivotal commands in the nation with officers loyal to him in the Xcorps(Rawalpindi), the ISI(Intel) and the DCMJ when he took over as the the head of the Army. Without any analysis as to what these appointees and Gen Kayani seem to be going, to call this report incomplete is to be charitable.

By: Westwright

Westwright — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:42:50 +0000

'davidhorowitz' are you 5 years old? Get your own nom de plume you little tool-troll! NeoCons/neocons/neocons…do you know any other words of wisdom, jackazz!

By: AHR

AHR — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:48:08 +0000

In the December 18th New York Times publication, an article Pakistan Ministers Are Called Before the Courts was written by Jane Perlez and Salman Masood. Though the article does state the annulment of the National Reconciliation Ordinance and the repercussions of the decision taken by the Pakistan Supreme Court, it has given an image portraying the Pakistan Army as an anti-democratic institution. Understandably the Pakistan Army is going through a turbulent phase. The army is currently engaged in a battle against militants who are adamant in bringing down the current democratic set up in Pakistan. However, one must not forget that many of these militants have grown up in the same neighborhood as the army soldiers, and regardless of allegiance, it is always difficult to take up arms against a childhood acquaintance.

http://ahraza.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/the-paki...

By: davidhorowitz

davidhorowitz — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:11:57 +0000

Pakistan has always 'been in peril'. What is surprising is not the current unrest, but rather the fact that Musharraf played along with the U.S. concerning the War on Terrorism for as long as he did. Of course, he was rewarded with constant badgering and criticism by Bush/Cheney for 'not doing enough'. It was at that point that we knew Musharraf was doomed, and that Pakistan was entering a time of danger and extreme stress. Opposed by his enemies, and censured by his friends, left him no wiggle room. Behold the political genious of the neo-cons…

By: xyz

xyz — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:50:26 +0000

Islam is the religion of peace and submission to God. Get a copy of the english translation of the Holy Quran( I recommend Mermaduke Pickhtal) and you will see how.If islam's mission was to conquer the world by force then there would't have been 15 million non-muslims middle east and so on.The so called Al-qaeda, has been unanimously criticised by all the authentic Islamic scholars around the world because “islam requires moderation in all the things”.Don't make false claims against a legitimate political party.
Allah says in the holy quran :
” kill not one another. Lo! Allah is ever Merciful unto you.
( سورة النساء , An-Nisa, Chapter #4, Verse #29)
clearly dismissing ideology of extremists as islamic!

By: xyz

xyz — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:26:01 +0000

David is absolutely right, “steveNVicki” we are the ones living there you are not dear brother. The presence of foreign troops in our neighbouring country is actually fuelling the insurgency. For instance drone attacks us. kills only innocent civilians as highlighted by Pakistani media commentators and experts, so if 500 people are killed in a month of attacks and assuming each one has 4 relatives, congratulations you have managed to create 500×4=2000 terrorists! And by the way we have a large educated labour work force, a large english speaking population an industry and a strong military(which has almost entirely eliminated the insurgency in our country within months of the operations which the armies of 40 nations have not been able to do in our neighbouring country) and we don't need any help!

By: sikander

sikander — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:33:15 +0000

Dear Sir,
Pakistan is not in a danger of any coup at the moment. People who know the recent events can understand that there are some legal cases which were droped by musharaf government but have been revived by the Chief Justice who was sacked by Musharaf but came back.

http://real-politique.blogspot.com

By: randy

randy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:18:19 +0000

We'll get highlights from the scientific meeting of the American Geophysical Union, going on this week. We'll hear about the link between earthquakes and the online service Twitter, new research into the Earth's magnetic field, the drying out of California, and more niche blueprint review.

By: SteveNVicki

SteveNVicki — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:26:55 +0000

“…only promotes western ideas, rather than reporting the truth. Pakistan has been suffereing from western presence in the region, that has been the cause of all terrorism….”
Suffering!? Our money really causes suffering for Pakistan? Western presence is the cause of ALL terrorism? David right? Is that REALLY your name you Islamic radical LIAR. I'm all for us leaving Pakistan and everywhere lese in the Middle East EXCEPT for Israel. Either let you all revert back to the stone age or nuke you there. When your biggest concern is where your next meal is coming from instead of how you can overthrow legitimate governments and religons, then maybe the rest of the CIVILIZED world can actually have some peace.

By: Robert Bernier

Robert Bernier — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:10:56 +0000

The ambition of Islam to conquer the world.
For centuries Islam of the militants have been on the march to conquer the world. We did not notice because we chose not to notice. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in
1920 by Hassan al-Banna in Egypt and was in deep confrontation with the Egyptian government. Al-Banna’s ideology set the current Al Qaeda goals for Islam to achieve global domination for a Muslim Caliphate: a world under strict Islamic “Sharia” law, pulling Muslims back to the 7th Century as explained at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2007/12...

By: Proxywar

Proxywar — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:52:40 +0000

Right, because it couldn't be the ISI who are the corrupt ones backing the Taliban.
Way to stick up for corruption, unconstitutionality, and jihadism though that is par for the course among progressive-socialists. It doesn't make any sense to live and let live with the Taliban because they do not believe in the golden rule. With or without America, Zardari, would have to fight the Taliban at some point because they want to over throw him. Not to mention, the Taliban sympathizers within the Pakistan government who also want him overthrown. Zardari an “agent”? Hardly. The Pakistanis elected him.

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:01:18 +0000

How biased, misinformed this author is….the only purpose of it seems to give the corrupt and inept (some claim to be a traitor) Zardari, some good face..sad on such journalism, that only promotes western ideas, rather than reporting the truth. Pakistan has been suffereing from western presence in the region, that has been the cause of all terrorism, and Zardari is their biggest agent, implanted on the people of the country, but he has tried all his best to go too far in protecting foreign interests, rather than the interests of the country he is supposed to be the President of, and such are the instruments of western nations foreign policy, that includes major heads of corrupt politicians and a similar government in the neighbourhood Afghanistan…its time for these games to end!!!!