Scathing commentary at the Guardian website:
Gen Musharraf has called Washington and London’s bluff, knowing they have no option but to back him. In launching what is, in effect, his second military coup in eight years, the general has exposed the impotence of the US and Britain to control a key ally with nuclear weapons. With troops on the ground in Afghanistan, and the military situation in Nato’s war against the Taliban and al-Qaida delicately poised, the US cannot make more than faint bleating noises when its key ally across the border buries democracy for the foreseeable future. Condoleezza Rice said last night that Washington was reviewing the aid package to Pakistan, but the options of the US secretary of state are limited – if, that is, she wants Pakistan’s army to continue its costly campaign in Waziristan. The American empire, if there is such a thing, is only just coming to terms with the fact that one of its pro-consuls has gone awol.
On the Lahore High Court protest today:
لاہور سے سینکڑوں وکلاء کی گرفتاری کی اطلاعات ملی ہیں جن میں ضلعی بار ایسوسی ایشن اور ہائی کورٹ بار ایسوسی ایشن کے عہدیدار بھی شامل ہیں۔
ایک پولیس اہلکار نے نام نہ بتانے کی شرط پر بتایا کہ پولیس نے ہائی کورٹ سے تقریباً چار سو سے زیادہ وکیل گرفتار ہوئے ہیں۔ وکلاء کی ایک بڑی تعداد زخمی بھی ہوئی۔ صبح سے دوپہر تک ہائی کورٹ میدان جنگ بنا رہا جہاں ہر طرف آنسو گیس پھیلی ہوئی تھی اور پولیس وکلاء کو پکڑ پکڑ گاڑیوں میں ڈالتی رہی۔

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Oh for fuck’s sake. They have to bleat because of public opinion. It’s not like the sainted US and UK couldn’t see this coming. AWOL my ass.
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