Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Pakistani Democracy? Fuck that Shit!

From the BBC:

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is to stay on as head of the armed forces despite a previous pledge to stand down by January.
Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said: "The president will keep both the posts. The national situation demands he keeps the two offices."

The announcement follows weeks of speculation and rival motions from parliamentary parties over the issue.

The decision will anger Pakistan's hardline Islamic parties.


Mr Ahmed said the "situation has changed" since the president made his pledge.

General Musharraf came to power in a bloodless coup in 1999.

He claimed this month that 96% of people wanted him to keep his military post.


96%

Yeah, Right. Using Saddam's pollsters, or just Bill Frist's?

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