SubscribeMusharraf Rejects “Emergency” Wants Elections
From a disappointed Reuters:
Musharraf rejects emergency
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - President Pervez Musharraf rejected calls to declare emergency powers and wants elections to take place in Pakistan, a spokesman said after widespread reports that the beleaguered leader would opt for authoritarian rule.
Private television channels and newspapers had reported that General Musharraf was poised to take a step that would probably delay elections due by the turn of the year and could result in restrictions on rights of assembly and place curbs on the media.
“In the president’s view, there is no need at present to impose an emergency,” Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani said.
“The president was under pressure from different political parties to impose an emergency, but he believes in holding free and fair election and is not in favor of any step that hinders it,” Durrani added, without specifying which parties.
The ruling coalition parties have most to lose at the polls, and Musharraf’s own popularity has plunged since he vainly attempted to oust the country’s most senior judge.
A government spokesman had suggested the government could justify emergency rule by citing mounting insecurity after a spate of attacks — many of them suicide bombings — by Islamist militants allied to the Taliban and al Qaeda over the past month…
For the last few months, and especially the last few days, the media has been full of reports about Mr. Musharraf’s plans to call an emergency and to delay the upcoming elections.
Of course the media will say anything to try to undermine the government of Pakistan and help their allies the Taliban.
Meanwhile, heroes like Hugo Chavez blithely declare martial law, say they will be president for life and outlaw the opposition — with barely a peep from our watchdog media.
Why is that?
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August 9th, 2007 at 11:01 am
IT’S THE WHACKY ADVENTURES OF ABU ‘N’ TARIQ – THE ANGRY MUSLIM BROTHERS!
Today’s Episode: “Tariq and Abu go to Jihad camp”!
“There! Look at that, fool; my AK-47 – fully and perfectly re-assembled”.
“No, Tariq - its not. The gas tube goes on the top, see? Otherwise, your sights are upside down. And look; you’re not supposed to have any pieces left over – that big spring-ey thing goes back inside somewhere”.
“Shut up! You lie! Damn you to the eternal flames of hell, you big lying liar”.
“Now your magazine’s dropped out”.
“No it didn’t – I wanted that to happen”.
“Honestly, Tariq; it’s only got, like, eight moving parts. The Russians kept the design so basic that even a retarded Siberian can use it – so what’s your problem?”
“You’re my problem, you boastful sodomite. Now I’ll have to start all over again – thanks to you”.
“Why is it my fault?”
“Because this was your idea, Abu. You brought us here. ‘Let’s go to a secret training camp in the mountains of Diarhiastan and learn jihad’ you said. ‘It’ll be fun’ you said. Well, here we are and it’s not fun at all – its hard work and its cold and I’m hungry and they don’t call this place ‘Diarhiastan’ for nothing”.
“Bitch, bitch, bitch”.
“Do not inflame me, brother! Look; after we graduate the most physical thing we’ll ever have to do for jihad is to drive a car to a crowded market or sit on a plane, a subway train a bus or other form of public conveyance and push the button or light the fuse on our shoes, yes? You don’t exactly need to be Ahmed Schwarzenegger for that, do you? So what is the point of all this stuff? Up at dawn, running for miles, jumping through flaming hoops, climbing up ropes –“
“Falling off ropes, in your case. Well; ‘Mens sana in corpore sano’, I guess”.
“What’s that – Hebrew? I knew you were unworthy of confidence, you Mossad dog!”
“It is Latin, ill-tutored brute – what kind of cow college madrassah did you attend, anyway?”
“Khomeini Community College, which is a perfectly respectable institution of Islamic learning, I’ll have you know. What is this ‘Latin’ which comes so glibly from your tongue, mouth of Satan?”
“It is a dead language, just like you will be if you don’t leave me in peace, you mindless deviant. I must finish my bomb”.
“It’s called an ‘IED’, not a bomb. Get it right, you submissive bedmate of Jews and Crusaders”.
“Whatever it is, it’s the only thing invented by the Arabs in a thousand years, so let me concentrate, pig. Let’s see; blue wire to yellow. Green wire to red…or is it the other way?”
“Oh; great! Now you will martyr us all with your incompetence”.
“Shut up, Tariq”.
“Make me”.
“Die!”
“You die first!”
“TEN-HUT! What’s going on here, trainee holy warriors?”
“Nothing, Master. A little Islamic horseplay, Master –that’s all”.
“Hmmm. Let’s see your chin, soldier. When was the last time you shaved?”
“Six months ago, Master!”
“Good. Keep those whiskers growing, son. What’s your First General Order?”
“My First General Order is that whatever happens, it’s never, ever, the Muslim’s fault, sir!”
“Good. You - what’s your Second General Order?”
“My Second General Order is that, um, er, it’s all about oil?”
“No! Your Second General Order is that it’s all the fault of Western foreign policy which is driven by the Zionist lobby and the Neo-Con cabal in Washington. ‘All about oil’ is your Ninth General Order, you ignorant spawn of a monkey and a pig!”
“Pardon, Master”.
“Shut up and saddle up! We’re going for a little twenty five kilometre march – let’s go! You too, soldier of Islam. Pick ‘em up and put ‘em down!”
“Yes, Master”.
“Let’s hear you jihadis sound off: I wanna worldwide big jihad!”
“Want it now and want it bad!”
“I can’t hear you, ladies! Sound off like you got a pair! I met a girl in Paris, France!”
“I CUT HER THROAT ‘CAUSE SHE WORE PANTS!”
“That’s better! I’ll make holy martyrs out of you yet! I wanna restore the Caliphate!”
“WHEN WE DO, EVERYTHING’LL BE GREAT!”
“Excellent!”
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