The Pakistani government is tying itself in knots merely on account of the extremely trivial matter of having to accept that Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman "Kasab" is a Pakistani national. They already sacked the national security advisor. Now imagine the upheaval if the matters they will have to accept are not that trivial.
…is now
Pakistan’s economy is in a tailspin. Since the second last thing that the international community wants in Pakistan is an economic meltdown, Friends of Pakistan are coming together to provide emergency foreign aid.
Now how Pakistan’s western and Middle Eastern ‘friends’ want to spend their money is their call. For India’s part, this is [...]
A tale of two outbreaks
Avian flu first hit India in February 2006, when chickens in Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district tested positive for the H5N1 virus. India’s official response was promising: it activated its contingency plan, quarantined the affected districts, improved surveillance and began culling birds (almost 900,000 birds were culled). The outbreak was contained quickly. Poultry [...]
The food crisis might push ordinary Pakistanis over the edge
The headline writers at Mail Today were certainly creative. What was originally “Anger over atta” (based on this post) became “Pakistan could now be hit by a food bomb”, in yesterday’s edition. Some excerpts:
Frequent power cuts affected flour mills, disrupting the production of wheat flour. [...]
To believe that an American tilt against India will stabilise Pakistan is to ignore the new realities
As expected, some commentators have begun suggesting that the way for the US to regain influence in Pakistan is to “tilt” towards its ‘national security’ interests by, you guessed it, rethinking Washington’s India policy. Never mind that much of [...]
Worries over Pakistan’s crown jewels
When B Raman says what he says, it is time to start worrying.
They have succeeded in killing her. They will now step up their efforts to eliminate Musharraf. Whoever was responsible for killing her could not have done it without inside complicity. If Al Qaeda is already having sleeper cells in [...]
Some parties favour elections, political parties might not
Despite all the nice talk of ‘restoring democracy’ in Pakistan, the general elections of January 2008 were mostly about engineering a political outcome that would be acceptable to Gen Musharraf, tolerable to the more vocal sections of Pakistani civil society and amenable to carry out the United States’ [...]
The crisis deepens
Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a presumed suicide attack, a spokesman for the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) says. [BBC]
As the Offstumped blogger said in an SMS, “this is more macabre than (even) we comforted ourselves with”.
Update: Does the United States have a Plan B? It was clear [...]
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