Mother of all Elections Re. majumdar & FATA/Lal Masjid:

Pakistan has every legal and moral right to protect its territorial integrity as far as the Waziristan issue goes. Pakistan is greater than the sum of it parts and the idea and security of Pakistan supersedes the interests of a few petty traitors. The persons holding the nation hostage in so far as the Lal Masjid affair were criminals and a disgrace not just to Pakistan, but the whole of humanity and thankfully got their just desserts.

Mother of all Elections In spite of everything, these elections should never have taken place. In some masochistic frenzy the Pakistani electorate, co-opting Western pro-democracy agitprop, have in essence surrendered their nation to Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari; both utterly reprehensible and proven criminals.

Pakistan's turbulent climate particularly in so far as separatists, fundamentalists and terrorists as well as poverty, illiteracy and one sided globalisation/(imperialism) shall inevitably be aggravated by these criminals having acquired office.

Musharraf's martial law will be looked back at with nostalgia, by the time Sharif and Zardari have had their way.

Pakistan Elections 2008 - An analysis It'll all in end in tears this election business .. I'm pretty sure theres going to be a civil war ..

Drama of Succession - Pakistan People’s Party Its interesting to see how passionate you people are getting. I suspect that my "detractors" :) can't see the forest for the trees. I suppose that's not unreasonable if one is intensely involved with localised politics and all the passions and predicaments therein.

Anyways I have exams and shall continue with this business at a later date.

In any case to clarify a little bit, I don't support the military at all. But being practical and realistic there's no other acceptable choice at the moment.

krbhatti:

Democracy and globalisation are interlinked. I am not anti-globalisation either provided its a two way street. What's happening in Pakistan is not globalisation but rather pure economic, political and cultural imperialism and the reason this is happening is because Pakistanis have been lead to believe that either we globalise or alternatively we Talibanize. This dichotomy is catalysed by economic insecurity and shall only exacerbate under a democracy. This effect serves Western interests as it will creates either weak pliable factions of Pakistan dependant on the West (Baluchistan) or easy enemies to defeat, which is what I fear will become of the Pakhtun nationalist/Islamist lobby in Sarhad.

These politics are not new by any means. The West have been at it for hundreds of years ever since William the Conqueror. Its very simple .. divide and rule, which is why democracy is suddenly so imperative in Pakistan.

Drama of Succession - Pakistan People’s Party I can't be bothered .. read my ilog.. :) you can complain there..

Drama of Succession - Pakistan People’s Party #13 #14

Is this because the Americans tell us so ??

I can't seem to see any other basis to this alleged claim of the intrinsic "betterness" of peoples' governments..

Drama of Succession - Pakistan People’s Party #10 ..

:) You seem to be very optimistic.. Pakistani civilian governments tend to consist of creatures like Zardari, Wattu, Sherpao, Lalika, Khar, the Sharif brothers and of course my personal favourite Rafiq Tarrar :) just to name a few of the luminaries which the Pakistani electorate in their infinite wisdom selected to represent them.

In reality .. if a civilian government had been in power prior to 9/11.. a martial law would eventually be declared following a state of emergency on some basis like threats from Afghanistan etc etc.. simply because civilian leadership is totally illiterate for the most part or too greedy to see past their own noses.

However for the sake of argument if a civilian government were to have exclusively managed Pakistan post 9/11.. the Americans would simply have bombed the country to nothing.

Drama of Succession - Pakistan People’s Party #7 and #8

The reasons why; Its quite simple and objective, democracy doesn't work. It never has and it never will.. even in the countries that advocate it.

No Pakistani democracy has ever worked and historically the Pakistani economy has only ever preformed under martial law. A civilian government right now is the worst thing that could happen to Pakistan. The whole country would disintegrate and it would be a viable basis for the West to intervene.

It never fails to surprise me however how myopic the Pakistani public are and how susceptible they are to propaganda.

Consider where Pakistan would be right now had there been a sitting civilian govt prior to 9/11.

Drama of Succession - Pakistan People’s Party Why do people imagine that BB should not bequest the PPP leadership to her son. There is no democratic process within quite a few political parties all over the world and neither is such requisite or necessary in such cases. A political party is only a vehicle by which an interest group realises parliamentary representation. Its internal practices are irrelevant to the will of the electorate that elect it.

Personally I think that no democratic government should ever come to power in Pakistan. Its a sure route to the whole country going down the toilet and these "muslims" turning 60 years of effort into a disaster like Afghanistan.

A Letter To President Musharraf You're all illiterates.