Is it martial law or an emergency in Pakistan?
What is going on in Pakistan? As it is affecting the lives and businesses of millions of people, will it also effect foreign investment into Pakistan?
Mr. Walter Anderson's reflections on President Bush's phone call to President Musharraf, the future of Benazir Bhutto and much more on Pakistan's current emergency crisis.
Here's a brief interview with Dr. Walter Andersen.
http://www.youtube.com/globalcrossover
Clarification added November 11, 2007:
I would like to add the comments from fellow Pakistanis watching the situation on the ground.
This is from Noman Qureshi <nrq007@yahoo.com>
I don't see any panic here in Karachi.. everyone is just busy in their lives they don't care whats going on with the Media, Jury and in the Govt. Everyone is doing his business and don't want to spoil again with the media news again who always harass the general public. This might be because peoples know that they don't have any other option.. if Mushrarraf is gone,, then there is again Benazir or Nawaz Sharif.... I guess peoples life in Pakistan will never change....
Salman Khalid <salmank@gmail.com> wrote:
It is definitely martial law. The constitution has been suspended by the Chief of Army Staff. Emergency only exists in the presence of the constitution and is imposed by the President and not the Chief of Army Staff.
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Harshwardhan G.
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Rather transparent martial law by a self-serving dictator, as I see it from India.
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Where I come from there is a saying: if it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
Outside communications have been cut, the major opporsition figure (who was originally hoped by some to join forces as an ally against extremist elements) was placed under house arrest (although released after 24 hours). A general crackdown has been imposed by shock troops holding protesters at bay with barbed wire. And now there is the possibility that civilian protesters may be tried in miliary tribunals.
I believe we have a duck here.
P.S. One of the main reasons Pakistan has been given such wide latitude by certain world leaders who shall remain nameless, was that Pakistan's leadership presented itself as an ally in the "War on Terror." The hope was that such an ally would help to contain al-Qaida. That seems not to have been the most effective policy.
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Hi,
Weather its martial law or emergency, If you are doing acts of making every organ of state centered around your very personal gains, you are messing the very basic essence of law and justice of a state!
If one thinks that only his/her version of story is the genunie truth, then he/she is making only him/herslef a fool.
If you think that being man of god father you have right to mess with each and every activity of state just keep in mind that another day there might be some one who will become more closed man of godfather and yours days will be counted.
Democracy have its own pace of iteratively setting up path for nations, let this iterative process be in progress. Rest foreign investments and international support comes along, as this process gains maturity over years.
Regards,
Shahid.
It's neither emergency nor martial law, it;s musharraf law.
My answer below may sound a bit of the track but I wanted to share my feelings, so here it is:
I care less whether it's a martial law or democracy; what matters most here is there should be a prevalent sense of security among society members and solution for the instability in the society as a whole.
In the past several decades, none of the government leaders have been able to resurrect economic and social values, security, and persistent economic growth. It has been proved over and again that whoever came to power spent less time working towards the betterment of country and its countrymen rather devour peoples’ tax money and funding. They seemed to have absolutely no sense of accountability, honesty and sincerity among our past and present leaders.
Long story short, as long as people are not dying on the streets for no reasons, getting a fair share for their livelihood, where social values are prevailing and police mafia is not tormenting civilians, then whether it’s a martial law or democracy it’s far better this way.
Before ending I just want to share one more thought; we should not let other forces/parties (mainly from the west) to overshadow our priorities and internal affairs. Let us worry about the Pakistani people more than Pakistan as a republic.
