Good riddance to secular rule

…This vision was none other than what certain men and women in Washington DC want Pakistan to be: a thinly disguised secularised polity in which Islam and its most fundamental values are relegated to the level of rhetoric while a thorough going secularism transforms the society into a caricature of the Western world.  >>>>>

Deadlock and death in inauspicious start to Pakistan post-Musharraf

Post-Musharraf Pakistan got off to an inauspicious start yesterday, after a meeting of the coalition government resulted in deadlock over the key issue of the judiciary, and Taliban militants demonstrated that their violent campaign would continue with a suicide bombing that killed at least 27.

Pervez Musharraf resigned as Pakistan’s president on Monday in order to avoid impeachment following a series of crises, starting with the sacking in March 2007 of the country’s chief justice.  >>>>>