"Pakistan could be targeted after Iran" -- Pakistani politician

[TexasLawyer]

Mr. Baloch might be the Pakistani equivalent of Rush Limbaugh, but it is newsworthy that he's saying this to the media.

Pakistan could be targeted after Iran

Monday, February 28, 2005

CHINIOT: "The United States’ evil designs against the Muslim Ummah will not end even after attacking Iran, as Pakistan could be next," said Liaqat Baloch, deputy secretary general Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). (a Pakistani political party)

Talking to journalists on Sunday, he said that the Ummah was passing through a difficult period, as the US and European countries were trying to destroy Islam. He slammed the government for removing the religion column from the passport, terming it as a step to destroy the Islamic culture of the country. MMA, he said, would fight against the ongoing government drives aimed at changing the image of Islam.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-2-2005_pg10_2

[Gloria]

1. Benazir Bhutto is coming to DC next week..."amid reports of new

political arrangements in Pakistan." Wonder what's up???


From the new World Media Watch.....

3//The Daily Times, Pakistan Monday, February 28, 2005

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-2-2005_pg7_39



BENAZIR TO DISCUSS DEMOCRACY WITH US OFFICAILS


WASHINGTON (SANA): Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson and former premier, will visit the United States next week amid reports of new political arrangements in Pakistan.

PPP sources said Ms Bhutto hoped to meet senior US officials in Washington to discuss “the eventual restoration of democracy in Pakistan”.

Although Pakistan has had a parliament and an elected government since October 2002, the real power is in the hands of President General Pervez Musharraf, who toppled an elected government in 1999.

Earlier this month, a US State Department spokesman urged General Musharraf to quit the army, rule as a civilian president and ensure the participatio


n of all political parties in the 2007 elections. On February 24, General Musharraf told reporters that his government was in touch with Ms Bhutto.



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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-2-2005_pg1_1





GOVT DISCUSSING POLLS WITH BENAZIR: RASHID

Insists there will be elections in 2007

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The government is in contact with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and discussing election dates with the Pakistan People’s Party chief, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said.


Talking to a private television channel, Ahmed said the final round of talk had not yet been completed. “Only a sketch has been formed and it has not yet been finalised,” he said.

Asked whether he thought Bhutto’s visit to the United States would cause a change in the Pakistani political scene, he said there would only be a change after general elections in 2007.

He said that the PPP and the government had also discussed general elections. The PPP wanted elections in 2005, but the government was determined that elections would be held on schedule in 2007 after the current assemblies complete their tenure. At a press conference in Lahore on Sunday, Ahmed said the government was trying to reach a “broad understanding” with the opposition parties, but this would take some time.

“It would be unwise not to grasp the post-9/11 political scenario. I am confident that government-opposition meetings will yield positive results,” he added. He said the government and opposition were discussing every issue.



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[bemildred]

4. Taken with Mubarak's sudden desire to hold real elections,

and the recent "elections" held in Saudi Arabia,
and the "elections" held in Iraq, and leave us not
forget Afghanistan, one might suspect that something
is afoot.

[Bhaisahab]

2. The MMA is a right wing political party

with deep support in areas bordering Afghanistan. They even have a provincial government. so people do notice when they talk...

[TexasLawyer]

8. the Muslim Ummah

Can you also tell me what the "Muslim Ummah" is? (referenced in the article). I've been unable to look it up, but assume from the contexts I've seen it in, that Ummah is a generic word for "people" or "tribe" or the like. Am I close? Thanks.

[daleo]

10. I think it is the collective of Muslim worshipers.

Kind of like the phrase Christendom. I don't know if it only applies to countries with Muslim majorities and political systems or the collection of all worldwide Muslims, though.

[Bhaisahab]

15. yep. muslim ummah is the muslim brotherhood.. worldwide (eom)

[Randi_Listener]

3. Is that dickhead hopped up on Hippy Heroin too?

Only the best for the fucking Pigboy.

[parsifal_e]

12. Is your sig photo real ?

if so what was he doing at the time ?

[leveymg]

5. One of the nightmare scenarios attendant to an attack on Iran is an

overthrow of the Musharraf regime and a Pakistani retaliation against Israel. There's an effort afoot to neutralize the opposition parties.

Looks like that phase has started.

[Supersedeas]

6. A Paki-Iranian-Syrian Alliance would complicate things for Prof. Condi

[leveymg]

7. That would be a Sunni-Shi'a-Baathist Alliance. Talk to Alice about that:

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”

[TexasLawyer]

11. and re the US plans to make democracy bloom:

in the deserts of the Middle East:

They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
"If this were only cleared away,"
They said, "it would be grand!".... But wait,... oh to hell with it...

Off with their heads!

[Supersedeas]

16. which of those Paki-Syrian-Iranian pigs are Baathist--maybe you got your

shoes and ships mixed up.

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. not very likely

If we were going to attack them we would have done it already. Like, after 911 when they harbored Bin Laden.







Right?

[darkism]

13. Oooh, yea let's go to unjustified war with a NUCLEAR POWER

That sounds like TONS of fun.

[Igel]

14. The MMA just has invasion envy.

They thought they were the best Muslims and should have been first in line. Probably suffering from subliminal guilt over not having been able to get more of their students to go to Afghanistan to be killed.