Pakistan: State of Emergency
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 am . by nukeUpdate: Martial Law declared
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From Yahoo News (AP)-breaking news
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on Saturday, ahead of a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, thrusting the country deeper into political turmoil as it struggles with spreading Islamic militancy.
The government blocked transmissions of private news channels in several cities and telephone services in the capital, Islamabad, were cut.
Seven Supreme Court judges immediately rejected the emergency, which suspended the current constitution. Police blocked entry to the Supreme Court building and later took the chief justice and other judges away in a convoy, witnesses said.
Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto flew from Dubai on Saturday and was sitting on a plane at Karachi airport, waiting to see if she would be arrested or deported, her spokesman Wajid Hasan said after speaking to the former prime minister by telephone from London.
“The chief of army staff has proclaimed a state of emergency and issued a provisional constitutional order,” a newscaster on state Pakistan TV said, adding that Musharraf would address the nation later Saturday.
I don’t know why anyone should be too concerned about this development, because Pakistan is dominated by Muslims, and Islam is the Religion of Peace™
These developments have NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING to do with Islam.
I’ve told you folks for years now, Islam is a peaceful religion. Anybody who doesn’t know this by now is just a neocon Bushie global warming denier.
You don’t have to believe me…..
Just ask the Islamic Rage Boy.
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Why are you laughing.
SILENCE!!!
i keeel you!
Anybody who doesn’t know this by now is just a neocon Bushie global warming denier.
Yep. That’s me!
The dawgs win and y’all expect me to care about Pakistan and nuclear power in the hands of the taliban?
/I’ll think about that–tomorrow.
But Swampie, tomorrow is your day of rest.(!)
Nah, tomorrow is the day that I try to get everything straightened up that the younguns dismantled today. After their momma took them home (after I took them toy shopping and clothes shopping), I just had to collapse in a chair for a little while.
We spent a lot of time playing outside, and after we came back inside and I started taking off the kids’ protective clothing (long sleeved shirt and long pants topped by a sweatshirt and a hat for the baby, and long-sleeved shirt, jacket, hat, mittens, and boots for the 3-year-old, (he chose those himself to protect himself from the cold) I realized how odd we must look to Yankees, for the temp was @ 68 degrees.
Hasn’t Pakistan been on the brink of nuclear war with India at least a couple of times in the recent past? When is it NOT in a state of emergency, declared or otherwise?
SwampMan nixed the idea of garlic cheese jalapeno grits with dinner.
On the other hand, he ain’t cookin’, I is.
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