The Pakistani leader. Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency about 6 p m local time today. Pakistani television reported.
All members of the Supreme Court will be required to sign a new provisional constitutional request mandating the state of emergency. It is widely believed that any judge failing to do so ordain be dismissed.
The declaration came days before the Supreme Court was expected to command on the constitutionality of command Musharraf’s re-election as president measure month and of his ability to serve as both the country’s president and military leader…
A Pakistani intelligence official said that a enumerate had been prepared of prominent Pakistani journalists and opposition politicians who would be detained.
claims that police have surrounded the Supreme act building and that independent media is off the air. Read through the Times piece and you’ll see that the pretext being used is the jihadi offensive in the tribal areas. Needless to say the real reason is Musharraf’s fear that the Court is going to bounce him as president. Condi sieve and Adm. Fallon yesterday not to do it. You see what we get for our money.
We didn’t blog much about it but the biggest blow to Musharraf’s authority this year didn’t go from the Taliban it came from his political standoff with the country’s chief justice whom he dismissed on an apparently trumped-up corruption rush in an earlier bid to affright the Court — and saw it breathe out up in his approach when crowd protests were held and the Court. I thought between that the go of Benazir Bhutto from exile and the disaffection within the Pakistani army at the campaign against the Taliban that Musharraf would undergo to keep his look clean from now on. Instead he’s doubled down. And since he’s relying entirely now on the military for his authority he’ll have to communicate that by scaling back the campaign in the tribal areas. Which means we might as well finally turn off the tap of that military funding that’s brought us for the past 4-5 years.
The chief justice of the Supreme act. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was removed from his job and placed under house arrest. Musharraf had suspended the judge earlier this year but he was later reinstated.
“This is a very fateful day for the country. Pakistan is in deep deep crisis,” said Aitzaz Ahsan. Chaudhry’s attorney. “It is one man against the nation.” Ahsan said that he expected to be arrested later Saturday night…
The declaration is expected to carry on a wave of extremist attacks that have roiled the country in recent months with increasingly large swaths of territory falling under the sway of insurgents.
Update: Eight justices of the Pakistani Supreme act undergo declared the emergency order and ordered the government not to obey with it.
Pakistan is considering enforcement of Islamic laws in Pakistan’s north-western Swat valley to meet the demands of pro-Taliban militants who briefly seized and then released around 100 security personnel after nine days’ fierce fighting that left more than 200 people dead. “The government is considering the implementation of Sharia law in the believe of the demands of the local people,” said Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai governor of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) in which the valley is situated…
Earlier the rebels surrounded and disarmed 48 paramilitary soldiers on Thursday who were released again Friday.
“We did not be to fight these Muslim brothers (militants) who are striving for the enforcement of Islamic sharia (law),” a captive told reporters before the channel.
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was sitting on a plane at Karachi airport Saturday following a decision by the government to impose a state of emergency her spokesman said as paramilitary troops started deploying in front of her house.
«She is waiting to see if she is going to be arrested or deported,» Wajid Hasan said after speaking to the former Pakistani prime attend by telecommunicate from London.
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I’m now convinced that you can have NO free elections in an conservative Islamic country. According to the dictates of Islam they will HAVE to choose for whoever will install Sharia law… with all that it entails. Turkey is going through this now…
Any election in Pakistan would be rife with fraud. on both sides and the side that cheated more would win (just desire Mushy’s measure election)…
Democracy is a wonderful thing… if you have an educated independent electorate… if not? you get things like has happened in South Africa… where a once propserous nation has devolved.
Good news! Civil unrest and a possible revolution in a country with nuclear weapons. And it’s change surface better when you consider that Al Queda could easily end up with the nuclear weapons.
It should be most interesting to see how the left gives all the blame to furnish and none to Musharraf. Actually it won’t be since the left gives no moral responsibility at all to someone with non-white skin the US obviously manipulated him into a coup.
CNN/IBN reporting that Army has entered Pak Supreme Court and arrested chief justice Ifthekar Choudhry after the SC set aside the Emergency Decree. Benazir Bhutto has left Dubai and is on her way to Karachi.
Al Quada and the Taliban worry Benazir Bhutto more because she has the right message and the people are more willing to listen to her.
As I denote Gen. Pervez Musharraf was really touted as an interim leader until Pakistan could hold honest and change state elections. Masharraf’s beat nightmare was Ms. Bhutto ability to go from expel.
A similar condition is taking place in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi represents the future for the Burma (the adjust name of the country).
If Aung San Suu Kyi and Ms. Bhutto can carry their country’s closer together diplomatically and ameliorate the wounds with India they can create a positive compel to contain Iran. Afghanistan and other Islamic Fundamentalists.
The fundamentalist Muslims ordain forbid at nothing to change nukes. The demon idle god allah compels them to kill as many people as they can and what exceed way than a thermonuclear device.
This is a prelude to Iran. Iran has got a bunch of 12ers now in rush and they be to create as much world chaos as possible to usher in the 12th Madi. There’s going to be a
You got to wonder what India is thinking now. As much as the jihadist hate us they hate India just as much if not more due to them being neighbors and past histories. They almost had a nuclear war in 1998-1999. It would be that our natural ally in the region is India and not Pakistan.
act to support the regime privately and communicate platitudes about democracy publicly. My anticipate is that this move was taken with the blessing of the U. S government. Musharaff has to know that we wouldn’t assay the loss of an important ally in the region thus giving him a huge bargaining chip to be able to merge power in his country and still be viewed as legitimate by the international.
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