Political Quandary in Pakistan

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east bangladesh cancels cricket tour of west bangladesh

Bangladesh postpones its under-19 tour of Pakistan for security concerns

DHAKA, Bangladesh: Bangladesh's cricket oversight body said Friday it has ordered its under-19 team not to fly to Pakistan due to security concerns.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board said in a statement it made the decision after Bangladesh's diplomatic mission in the Pakistani city of Karachi asked it to postpone a planned tour.

The team was scheduled to fly late Friday to play five one-day matches and a four-day match against the Pakistani under-19 side.

The team had been originally scheduled to leave Bangladesh on Wednesday but the departure was rescheduled because of political turmoil in Pakistan, where President General Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency last Saturday.

The International Cricket Council earlier this week halted the women's World Cup qualifiers in Pakistan, while an ICC delegation inspecting facilities for next year's Champions Trophy left the country early for security concerns.

Re: #55

Now how would you know that.

Perhaps Zardari believes in tilling his Munkooha Kheti backwards and fowards....

and secondly,

Zeemax Sahib,

Didnt your mother or grandmother teach you that if you cant speak with the hole just below your nose, you shouldn't speak with the other one.

and thirdly, are you the official expert on holes, and their myriad uses?

fourthly, we are all given orifices for various purposes. I use mine for whatever pleases me, as it is my body and my unalienable right to do so....

But you on the other hand, Sir; Use yours the way you seem fit, and by God, I dont even want to think about that.....

Aadaab, Hazrat!

Re: # 57

mohar mian,

..... and one more thing ... this jihadi thing was very popular with everyone during the russian occupation of afghanistan and we all thought that what is good for the america must be good for us ........ wrong! .... heck, even i thought it was a great idea to use these smelly tribals as bashibazouks against the occupation forces in iok ..... wrong! .......

... so sheikh rashid was not the only one - everyone from ronald reagen to hamidm1 thought it was a great idea ....... so please, give him the visa .... the man is a gem among the watwani stones of paki politicians ........ thank you for your kind consideration

actually that's "kleptocrat in hermes scarf who has been annointed PM of the land of the pure"..and there's nothing abdul paki can do about the hermes scarf or the PM appointment.

Re: # 56

mohar mian,

... sheikh rashid is a good man .... the only reason he was a 'jihadi enabler' is because the military won't do what it is paid to do ...... it wants to run the country instead of adjusting the line of control which it tried to subcontract to the jihadis ..... bad idea! .... now we are paying the price with the blowback ......

...... i aplogize on behalf of sheikh rashid and promise not to do it again ....... the loc will be fixed using conventional means - infantry, armor an artillery with proper air and naval support ......

... sorry for the mix-up ....please give sheikh sahib the visa - he is an big cricket fan and is generally well behaved ... however, i can't promise he will not try to pick up some bollywood item girl - sheik sahib is a bachelor and has the roving eye ......

prime minister sheikh rashid zindabad !

Hamid

Dude - your idol, this Sheikh Rashid guy - it seems the dude was some kind jihadi enabler [in pakiland, who isn't ?] and got his visa denied by New Delhi, the dude wanted to watch cricket in india... and it seems he was crying in live TV over this - about his "struggle" to get the visa... in the middle "emergency" rule in his country... :)

I mean - what's wrong with you pakis?... Why are you people so stupid and delusional?... :)

#54 Posted by ShoreSahib,

At-least she gets it pointed at the right whole.

I love that comment about Benazir...

"a kleptocrat in a Hermes headscarf."

She is precisely that, and so much more......

Way to go Jemima dearie!

#52 Posted by freethinker,

That's at least two weeks outdated, and thrashed about on UP.

Thanks for your effort though.

On a lighter note, read Jemima Khan's (Imran Khan's ex-wife) views regarding BeNazir in the following which were published at Telegraph.co.uk.

Mohammad Gill
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Benazir Bhutto, a kleptocrat in a Hermes scarf

By Jemima Khan
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 21/10/2007

She's back. Hurrah! She's a woman. She's brave. She's a moderate. She speaks good English. She's Oxford-educated, no less. And she's not bad looking either.

I admit I'm biased. I don't like Benazir Bhutto. She called me names during her election campaign in 1996 and it left a bitter taste. Petty personal grievances aside, I still find jubilant reports of her return to Pakistan depressing. Let's be clear about this before she's turned into a martyr.

This is no Aung San Suu Kyi, despite her repeated insistence that she's "fighting for democracy", or even more incredibly, "fighting for Pakistan's poor".
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This is the woman who was twice dismissed on corruption charges. She went into self-imposed exile while investigations continued into millions she had allegedly stashed away into Swiss bank accounts ($1.5 billion by the reckoning of Musharraf's own "National Accountability Bureau").

She has only been able to return because Musharraf, that megalomaniac, knows that his future depends on the grassroots diehard supporters inherited from her father's party, the PPP.

As a result, Musharraf, who in his first months in power declared it his express intention to wipe out corruption, has dropped all charges against her and granted her immunity from prosecution. Forever.

Notably, he did not do the same for his other political rival, Nawaz Sharif, who was recently deported after attempting his own spectacular return to Pakistan.

But the difference is that Benazir is a pro at playing to the West. And that's what counts. She talks about women and extremism and the West applauds. And then conspires.

The Americans and the British are acutely aware that their strategy in the region is failing and that Musharraf's hold on power is ever more tenuous. They have pressed hard for Benazir and the General to cut a deal that would allow them to share power for the next five years in a "liberal forces government".

It's all totally bogus. Benazir may speak the language of liberalism and look good on Larry King's sofa, but both her terms in office were marked by incompetence, extra-judicial killings and brazen looting of the treasury, with the help of her husband — famously known in Pakistan as Mr 10 Per Cent.

In a country that tops the international corruption league, she was its most self-enriching leader.

Benazir has always cynically used her gender to manipulate: I loved her answer to David Frost when he asked her how many millions she had in her Swiss bank accounts. "David, I think that's a very sexist question."

A non sequitur (does loot have a gender?) but one that brought the uncomfortable line of questioning to a swift end.

Of all Pakistan's elected leaders she conspicuously did the least to help the cause of women. She never, for example, repealed the Hudood Ordinances, Pakistan's controversial laws that made no distinction between rape and adultery.

She preferred instead to kowtow to the mullahs in order to cling to power, forming an expedient alliance with Pakistan's Religious Coalition Party and leaving Pakistan's women as powerless as she found them.

The problem is that the West never seems to learn; playing favourites in a complicated nation's politics always backfires. Imposing Benazir on Pakistan is the opposite of democratic and doubtless will cause more chaos in an already unstable country.

Make no mistake, Benazir may look the part, but she's as ruthless and conniving as they come — a kleptocrat in a Hermes headscarf.

Re: # 46

if ever media was to be independent, it should first learn to be independent.

NEWS ALERT (particular with Geo) - Benazir has boarded the plane,
NEWS ALERT 2 - Benazir has acquired the boarding pass and proceeding to the waiting lounge.
NEWS ALERT 3 - Benazir sneezes, Naheed Khan wipes it out, sherry jealous, Zardari comforts latter.

What the B.S? Is this media or lollypop sucking stageshow overdone with fluffy colours?

To allay your concerns to drive out Pakistan from this quandary is to bring all related politicians and those arms which empower such politicians, whether good or vice, honest or otherwise; bring them all under the sun, under the knife.

Give legislation and Law the chance.

We need a veerappan to have a check on this oft deviating landlords.

Lord have mercy..
These people fixated on our defunct constitution.

Is this the same constitution that has been manipulated, toyed with, poked, prodded, and changed since its inception by our very leaders...

and this constitution is not the original one if I remember, I guess it dates back from 1973.....after we lost East Pakistan.

#41 Posted by Zyxius on November 10, 2007 4:57:56 am

the chances of shortcut filling in wolfowitz's shoes(or shah riza's for that matter) are ZERO...

any US administration that nominated a non-american would get raked over the coals on capitol hill.

Re:42

Very Good point.

I hope we Pakistanis can wake up and smell the Sabz Chai.

Dr. Gill, again, totally lack of the topical most issue. You have not discussed the gagging of the media (you would not be in a quandary if Musharraf stays clear from thrashing the private media). Watching PTV it is sickening. Right now there is a weirdo by the name of Zaineb Ansari (from a Karachi based PR agency) emotionally telling us the merits of dictatorship. Maybe you would feel right at home sitting next to her.

The media is a pillar whose ultimate job is to keep the incumbent government in check. It is enshrined in our constituion. Mushrraf has to stay clear from attacking it.