The President of Pakistan is in serious trouble

He could have chosen to fight an enemy with tanks, instead he's opted for pissing off lawyers armed with suitcases and lawsuits. He will die a slow painful death by litigation and torts and appeals and reviews. He will rue the day he crossed swords with the barristers.

Count on that. Then Benazir will pretend to be a democrat.

Is there something I should know that I don't?

Western-oriented. That's a plus.

whose return was facilitated by Bushco, I guess she's a saint :D

He will either be able to sit a new one or he will most likely be ousted. Those are the stakes right now.

the return of the revenge of the son of Zia Ul Haq.

If the tribal areas become the only unified power in Pakistan, India will nuke them.

back one horse of the cadre of generals' choosing.

And they'd nuke back.

is that you are right. I don;t think Pakistan is going to be a democracy again for a long while.

They are on the verge of being a failed state with nukes.

And he did it to himself.

I hate to point this out, but the playbook he is using will only make him a very strong dictator.

Read Naomi Wolf... you will even see the steps in action at a fast clip

She'll deal with it like she deals with everything else. For everything, there's Mastercard. Priceless.

As of this morning he had a rump Supreme Court with a new chief justice. 4 out of something like 18 or 19 stayed. There's talk of reducing the number of justices.

One of the big demonstrations today was, IIRC, the Sindhi chief justice. He was nixed for not taking the new oath under the PCO, and decided to follow Chaudhry's court's decision and was planning to show up for work. His supporters--it's a nice privileged fraternity they have there--demonstrated and I think he was prevented from going. Doesn't much matter. Overall, not much activity.

The response I've heard was a 3 day strike. Eh. They've done it before; the problem is that it's justice that suffers, since the courts are still, for the most part, to function under the the usual laws with the usual sorts of evidence.

Saying the elections will take place as scheduled (if that report was true) was a nice touch. Leaving the Parliament alone, ditto.

We'll see. I think the main action is still in the NWFP, but if the lawyers make it difficult (as they have, straight along), that, too, will suffer.

Why do you hate Musharref:shrug: :shrug: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

That is why we need 'TORT' Reform..........:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:







:hi::hi:

there's a reason it was said and that is the context of Shakespeare's words.