ViolaLee
11-13-2007, 06:04 PM
http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/WORLD/europe/07/28/bhutto.musharraf/art.bhutto.jpg
Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan is stirring things up. She's detained by 4000 Pakistani police. They are surrounding her house, 1000 on each side. She is not allowed to leave her home. This morning I heard her interviewed on NPR. She said she asked one of the policemen, shouldn't you be out trying to catch Osama Bin Laden?
This woman is my new heroine. She is calling for Musharaff to step down now. He's jailed the Supreme Court and suspended the constitution. The Bush administration is backing him and not her, can you imagine? A US government who backs the dictator instead of the party that wants freedom and rule of law?
Thousands of people have been thrown in jail for protesting Musharaff's power grab.
Bhutto said by telephone her Pakistan People's Party would decide whether to boycott the vote after seeing whether Musharraf complies with a law mandating he step down as head of the army by Thursday. Observers are skeptical he will follow through.
Musharraf issued his emergency decree, citing the need for sweeping executive powers to tamp down a growing Islamic insurgency along Pakistan's borders. But the thousands thrown into jail so far have been his critics, including lawyers, human-rights activists and opposition figures. He has come under intense domestic and international pressure to end emergency rule; yesterday, UN General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon urged him to do so and to release the arrested.
The Pakistani leader has refused to commit to any timetable. One well-placed Western diplomat said he expected Musharraf to lift the state of emergency within days, or at most a few weeks, because he knows a vote held under such circumstances would not be credible in the eyes of the world. The diplomat, speaking anonymously, also said it was possible Musharraf could shed his uniform within the next several days.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/world/ny-wopaki135458872nov13,0,778534.story
I wonder if Musharaff watched Bush violate our constitution and fire our US attorneys without being held accountable and decided to try to take it one step further in his own country.
Here's to Benazir Bhutto! You go girl :D
Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan is stirring things up. She's detained by 4000 Pakistani police. They are surrounding her house, 1000 on each side. She is not allowed to leave her home. This morning I heard her interviewed on NPR. She said she asked one of the policemen, shouldn't you be out trying to catch Osama Bin Laden?
This woman is my new heroine. She is calling for Musharaff to step down now. He's jailed the Supreme Court and suspended the constitution. The Bush administration is backing him and not her, can you imagine? A US government who backs the dictator instead of the party that wants freedom and rule of law?
Thousands of people have been thrown in jail for protesting Musharaff's power grab.
Bhutto said by telephone her Pakistan People's Party would decide whether to boycott the vote after seeing whether Musharraf complies with a law mandating he step down as head of the army by Thursday. Observers are skeptical he will follow through.
Musharraf issued his emergency decree, citing the need for sweeping executive powers to tamp down a growing Islamic insurgency along Pakistan's borders. But the thousands thrown into jail so far have been his critics, including lawyers, human-rights activists and opposition figures. He has come under intense domestic and international pressure to end emergency rule; yesterday, UN General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon urged him to do so and to release the arrested.
The Pakistani leader has refused to commit to any timetable. One well-placed Western diplomat said he expected Musharraf to lift the state of emergency within days, or at most a few weeks, because he knows a vote held under such circumstances would not be credible in the eyes of the world. The diplomat, speaking anonymously, also said it was possible Musharraf could shed his uniform within the next several days.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/world/ny-wopaki135458872nov13,0,778534.story
I wonder if Musharaff watched Bush violate our constitution and fire our US attorneys without being held accountable and decided to try to take it one step further in his own country.
Here's to Benazir Bhutto! You go girl :D