How things go pop. "the text that ended Pakistan"

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Sunday November 04, 2007 20:33

by iosaf

This other press text lets you the aware reader see the declaration which kicked off the 2007 state of Emergency in Pakistan.

It's a great little number which has already spawned a comprehensive encyclopedia page on English language wikipedia & means that the chances of numerous intelligent young Pakistani or Pakistani looking people, or even intelligent older people with Pakistani surnames getting their blogs noticed or opinions published are very good. It's great to be Pakistani. General Musharraf reckons his is the way to preserve that greatness whilst other worthy Pakistani politicians are coming out of the exile woodwork to volunteer to take him on. One favoured by RTE speaking from Saudi Arabia reckons things are going to Anarchy. Lovely you might think. Time to brush up on your coup d'etat statements & know this how to fight the mad mullahs.

the cyclopedia :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Pakistani_state_of_em...gency
The only resaon RTE chose to give space to former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as he gurggled today was because he used the word anarchy in a bad way...."'Step down, because he is part of the problem. The more he prolongs his misrule, Pakistan will be moving towards anarchy.'"
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1104/pakistan.html

Now I don't know about you, but I don't really think Anarchy begins with a text like the one just below this paragraph. I'll go on record now writing that Anarchism & its most respected proponents dosn't really have much truck with the "whereas" word. Perhaps the book of Mormon does, you'd have to ask a Mormon. Meanwhile Musharref has gone on telly again & told people he's signing orders which dissolve Pakistan's short democracy for their own sake - to protect them from the Islamists who are going door to door with their pristine clothes & books. The newspapers tomorrow will be filled with photos of Musharref taken in Hotel lobbies as receptionists study the telly & tell the western journalists who are scared shitless to go out on the street what's happening. After this declaration or Provisional Constitutional Order, I will append a pretty muttonish recipe for goat stew which drips with nutrition.

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Whereas there is visible ascendancy in the activities of extremists and incidents of terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, IED [improvised explosive device] explosions, rocket firing and bomb explosions and the banding together of some militant groups have taken such activities to an unprecedented level of violent intensity posing a grave threat to the life and property of the citizens of Pakistan;

Whereas there has also been a spate of attacks on state infrastructure and on law enforcement agencies;

Whereas some members of the judiciary are working at cross purposes with the executive and legislature in the fight against terrorism and extremism thereby weakening the government and the nation's resolve diluting the efficacy of its actions to control this menace;

Whereas there has been increasing interference by some members of the judiciary in government policy, adversely affecting economic growth, in particular;

Whereas constant interference in executive functions, including but not limited to the control of terrorist activity, economic policy, price controls, downsizing of corporations and urban planning, has weakened the writ of the government; the police force has been completely demoralised and is fast losing its efficacy to fight terrorism and intelligence agencies have been thwarted in their activities and prevented from pursuing terrorists;

Whereas some hard core militants, extremists, terrorists and suicide bombers, who were arrested and being investigated were ordered to be released. The persons so released have subsequently been involved in heinous terrorist activities, resulting in loss of human life and property. Militants across the country have, thus, been encouraged while law enforcement agencies subdued;

Whereas some judges by overstepping the limits of judicial authority have taken over the executive and legislative functions;

Whereas the government is committed to the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law and holds the superior judiciary in high esteem, it is nonetheless of paramount importance that the honourable judges confine the scope of their activity to the judicial function and not assume charge of administration;

Whereas an important constitutional institution, the Supreme Judicial Council, has been made entirely irrelevant and non est by a recent order and judges have, thus, made themselves immune from inquiry into their conduct and put themselves beyond accountability;

Whereas the humiliating treatment meted out to government officials by some members of the judiciary on a routine basis during court proceedings has demoralised the civil bureaucracy and senior government functionaries, to avoid being harassed, prefer inaction;

Whereas the law and order situation in the country as well as the economy have been adversely affected and trichotomy of powers eroded;

Whereas a situation has thus arisen where the government of the country cannot be carried on in accordance with the constitution and as the constitution provides no solution for this situation, there is no way out except through emergent and extraordinary measures;

And whereas the situation has been reviewed in meetings with the prime minister, governors of all four provinces and with the chairman joint chiefs of staff committee, chiefs of the armed forces, vice chief of army staff and corps commanders of the Pakistan army;

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the deliberations and decisions of the said meetings, I General Pervez Musharraf, Chief of Army Staff, proclaim emergency throughout Pakistan.

I hereby order and proclaim that the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan shall remain in abeyance.

This proclamation shall come into force at once.

(this is where General Pervez Musharraf President of Pakistan and the Chief of Pakistani Army Staff born 1943 in Kacha Saad Ullah Mohallah, Daryaganj in Delhi, British India put his signature)

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Goat Stew.

* Take a pot, skillet, wok, or heat conductive but incombustible receptacle
* Fill it with cleanish water.
* Add roots, greenery, leaves & smelly twigs.
* Place on or near fire.
* As long as you can afford.

Garnish with Goat if its ok with-you-know-who PeaceBeUponHim & you don't reckon it ought be spared or might just be the case you don't have a goat.

This dish is suitable for vegetarians.

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Comments (11 of 11)

Has Ireland changed her mind about Pakistan since the Jamaica incident?

Mon Nov 05, 2007 22:13

Oh I'm on safe ground with this. The modern Irish person appreciates cricket. & thus will remember the Pakistani cricket captain Inzamam-ul-Haq was fined for not ensuring his team met weight requirements for their 17th March Paddy's day innings against the Irish team this year. & rather more succesfully than a Domincan & Australian umpire had accused their team of ball tampering the year before succeeded in getting half (as in 50%) of the match takings.

Oh but I hear the reader say it's a gentlemanly game and fining Imazam half his match fee just shows how ungentelmanly Irish cricket has got since Sam Beckett. Or you'd be off on analogies. The most promising would have converted into decent GAA repartee. But don't worry about it, the man is a hero & one of the few left who has a beard. I've nothing against cricketers. It appears according to the biz as usual types in Pakistan that they will be holding those elections in January. ......"Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz is reported as confirming that the general elections due by mid-January will be held on schedule" http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1105/pakistan.html

Of curried goat stew lasts longer, in some case just long enough for you to find the goat (or the ok / blessing to unspare it) & pop it with much decorum in the stew. You don't go rushing in the kitchen.
Of course by that stage of culinary-ism you're leaving the vegetarians behind. I hope you realise all Pakistanis ( be they lawyers or not ) might just now be fleeing an unsafe land. Céad Mile Fáilte! We've got a recipe. Who has your nukes?

On Cricket

by Q

Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:18

Was Imran Khan arrested and if so is he still held and under what charges?
Also some people are very well aware of the cover up regarding the problems the last time the
Irish played. I expect the Brits would be unhappy at the arrest of Khan given his general affability
and sportiness (and connection to lots of money).

"..... when lawyers take to the barricades?....."

Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:17

In answer to the last cricket fans question, yes Imram Khan is counted amongst the detained. The former cricketeer who is now the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) (Movement for Justice) the political party that he founded in 1997 said to Australian news by phone on Sunday night that :-" Police entered my house in Lahore and told me that I am placed under house arrest - they did not show me any detention order at all," (Mr Khan had earlier accused General Musharraf of committing treason and called for him to face the death penalty.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Khan

Meanwhile on the other side of reality, I want you all to really ponder what it means when lawyers go out on the street, take on cops & ask the common folk to abandon their goat stew & "Rise up! Restore the Constitution!". Just in case you're very dim, lawyers are pretty much the same type the world over. Think big swinging Mickey Mc Dowell for example. Our former minister of justice maintained Afghanistan was a safe state to send people back to & no doubt if still relevant to politics in today's Ireland would encourage all Pakistanis to return to their land regardless of whether they wholeheartedly cheered a GAA County team or not. For in truth, lawyers don't go to barricades. Their place in the great scheme of things is gradually waxing wealthier on the accrued benefits of testing & proving & quibbling over the crystaline structure which are the rules, prohibitions, rights & privelages of any state. They are generally found quite far behind barricades on the very safe side of a copper's baton.

So. per aíxò as we say in katalalaland.

What's so great about the Pakistani Constitution that the common folk should Rise Up, Eirigi & restore it? & indeed to what stage should it be restored?

Do we go back to September 11th 1947?
Do we go back to Chief Executive's Order No. 24 of 2002 which saw Musharref restore the constitution he had placed in abeyance on October 12th 1999?
Do we go back to December 31, 2003, & the Seventeenth Amendment Bill which appeared to legitimise the 2002 order 24 & thus in retrospect imply it was ok of Musharref to seize power?
If ye had a Franco in your history you'd really see the attraction of ignoring the lawyers & concentrating on your goat stew.

Reclaim the Goat!

last link to the Constitution of Pakistan with links in English language to all Executive orders, instances of abeyance, suspensions, restorations, dictatorial mechanisms, "enabling acts", & amendments. Not a mention of Goats.

links

by Uniform

Thu Nov 29, 2007 19:40

http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/87807
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39930
http://www.wlum.org/english/actionsfulltext.shtml?cmd[156]=i-156-558450

thanks for the cue "uniform"..... as we all now know Musharref has renounced his uniform.

Thu Nov 29, 2007 23:05

Thus the state of Pakistan which breathed its first constitutional moment on the 11th of September of 1947 may reconcile the demands & needs of the world's busy bodies in the post 11th of September 2001 world of a mythical "war on terror".

Let's be really sarcastic.- Musharref has hardly worn his uniform in years. In the months approaching 911 he led a coup d'etat as chief of staff of the Pakistani army against the then democratic government of the Pakistani state, which had by then moved from a secular republic to an islamic republic. We've gone through the legal devices used in comments above. So we can presume the uniform he officiously handed over today was a clean one. No dust. No lint. Sparkling buttons. No blood.

But for the moment as I sit in an internet café thousands of miles from Pakistan, from the border frontier regions with Afghanistan, the disputed Kashmir, the sinous stretches of porous mountain ranges whose caverns plunge almost as deep as their peaks and signal the end of the Islamic world and the beginning of the Chinese - I can't but help wondering will the hundreds of Pakistani migrants, refugees, workers, fine cricket players, good for a laugh, looking for wives mostly - or caring for their husbands who are found within a kilometre of where I am sat, will now want to go home & take part in the stability and prosperity of their nation & state.

All I can say now, with one eye on the clock & the other on the good natured & literate urdu speaker at the internet cafe controls is this:

Verily it helps when you've got a nuclear arsenal. No wonder so many small poor states want nukes. You've got nukes - people take you seriously. You've got the codes & locations of the nukes in your head & hold the less than hundred people who can move those nukes as loyal or at least in your same boat of "we all sink or swim" then you may get expelled from the global cricket club (british commonwealth) - but you're not going to see your friends abandon you to the goats..................or for that matter abandon the goats to you.

so three minutes after a pakistani migrant wants to finish home & go to his house in Europe - I tell you Musharref handing in his sabre for the hope of a suit as swish as an Afghani president is nothing more than keeping the status quo.

Since this thread was begun, a web site on the "silly fringe" of science, space exploration & psychic research & general weirdnes I am friends with reminded their readership of a wonderful title by Jon Ronson "the Men who stared at goats". I suppose that was a positive peer reaction to my joke in the thread above about goats.

oh yes goats.

........"In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice - and indeed, the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror. 'The men who stare at goats' reveals extraordinary - and very nutty - national secrets at the core of George W Bush's War on Terror.........

you can read more at the author's site http://www.jonronson.com/goats_04.html

You can do so much with a goat.

human minds & what you can do to them

the men who stared at goats

He has a gall to declare Pakistan- islamic-

by Gall

Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:01

There are many tribes, the Pashtun representative was again released from prison.
Interesting how theocratic fundamentalism neutralises: gender. tongue. and advocates a
'one size fits all mentality'. which Arroyo is also attempting against the Moslems in the
Phillipines (Berkley educated RC). She uses the rusty tools of 'Human Security Act' and normalising
violence for public consumption to achieve her shit.

Interesting how the constitution of the islamic republic of Pakistan ensures tribal indentities are

by gurgle

Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:17

not made to fit a one size fits all recipe for gurgling comments like the last one which are more the product of an insatiable need to hit the comment button than anything else Chris. You're the sort of person who if let would tag up half the louvre with "i woz 'ere" scrawls

go read the Pakistani constitution.
lost about tribes.
nothing about goats.
as I said before.
http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/part12.c....html
have a nice day.

Question

by OZ

Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:27

"Let's be really sarcastic.- Musharref has hardly worn his uniform in years. In the months approaching 911 he led a coup d'etat as chief of staff of the Pakistani army against the then democratic government of the Pakistani state"

Not that I'm a big fan of coups, but wasn't this the only way Musharref could land his plane that was rapidly running out of gas?

Nor am I a fan of cricket (experiences of skin cancer and geting hit in the head too often with the ball), but I must say I was little disappointed with the lack of response by international cricketers to the detention of Imrahn Khan. The ex-wife has been staunch in demonstrations outside the Pakisatn embassy in London.

answer

by mucous

Sat Dec 01, 2007 09:56

No self-respecting Ozzie would be into the brit commonwealth cricket club anymore - in fairness.
Yep. you're right. Musharref has seen his suit legitimised. Just as his last coup the pakistani state will let him away with it. If the global public had backed Imran it would have triviliased the whole process in much a similar way as some sensible thinkers back Kasparov. The text that sent pakistan to "pop" served to put Bhutto in a different setting globally than the aged woman who returned home to a massacre & almost without time served to bring back a trusted opponent from the Arabian peninsula, where incidently Bhutto also was when the text was issued. Ah! the arabian peninsula, I wonder have you noted the Halliburton world HQ in Dubai? Whilst the lawyers went to the barricades, Musharref played his relinquishment of military authority to a wicket. The new military is missing some very interesting personel, who mostly came from & since on the 11th of Septembers led & shaped the Pakistani intelligence sector.

If you're still reading this thread for the recipe - it helps if you go low energy intensive on the cooking of your vegetable or root matter, as you know you'll glimpse a goat someday & want it in your skillet / wok / pot. Don't take your eye off it, when you spot it. They move like nobody's business.

& so 2 British based "thinktanks" are telling you it wasn't the taliban/ islamists /goat stew types

by staring @ goats

Thu Dec 27, 2007 21:07

That's very forth coming for Xmas holiday season when normally such people are out of their sensible shoes, away from the MI6/SIS conduit & dozing off a hangover.

"It is fair to assume now that elections cannot go ahead," said Farzana Shaikh, an expert on Pakistan and an associate fellow at the Chatham House analysis group in London. "The electoral process has been stopped dead in its tracks. I think there is a very real possibility that Musharraf will decide that the situation has got out of control and that he needs to impose emergency rule again.".....
"This is not the first crisis Pakistan has faced since its inception in 1947, but I would be inclined to say that it is the worst convergence of crises we have seen," Shaikh said.

oh well I told you so & never let a hangover get in the way of linking to the constitutional texts. Pakistan went pop quite a while ago & that cheap looking coffin is not so extraordinary if you avoid seeing this all from the global cricket appreciation crew perspective of England or her good friend in international post imperialist relations the free state of Eire..,

It's going to be very difficult to establish the truth of who was behind this," said M.J. Gohel, the executive director of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, a security and intelligence think-tank in London.
"As well as the Taliban and al Qaeda elements, there are many other candidates -- there are elements within the military and elements within the intelligence services, which never had a good relationship with Bhutto. "There are of course political opponents as well -- she had a lot of enemies within Pakistan as everyone knows." Shaikh pointed to the fact that Bhutto was killed in Rawalpindi, which is a long way from the North West Frontier province where Islamic militants usually operate. "That will raise fears that there was some level of official negligence that permitted this attack to go ahead," she said. "These sorts of events are going to raise very serious concerns about whether there was some sort of official connivance."

Yep sirree. on the third day of christmas my true love gave to me 3 french hens.

Now I want you all to pay attention coz I'll only write this once, & if you want you can scroll up the screen to read it again & thus pay attention to the purge of key elements from the Pakistani intelligence services during the last emergency rule session when I told you Pakistan had gone pop & ceased to be a valid state structure.

But if you can't get to grips with that & feel loathe to update your atlas then you can have to get comfortable with the idea that Nawaz Sharif is now the leader of the opposition in Pakistan, is accusing Musharraf of killing his main opponent in democracy & thus has decided the way to save the place is boycott the elections. it wasn't so great to be pakistani all along. they'll do better in the new form. pity they have nukes though.

Bhutto loyalists carry her coffin in Rawalpindi Pakistan December 27, 2007

He was a lame duck even if he was lunching with Haliburton in Dubai the day Pakistan went pop. Anyway now he's boycotting the election.

Benazir Bhutto's party appointed her son and her husband to succeed Benazir Bhuttu as opposition.

by staring at goats

Sun Dec 30, 2007 18:34

http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=34785
Now all that's getting wrapped up this last hour. Reuters have thoughtfully included a chronology of this whole story. Not one mention of goats & not one mention of Al Q. look out behind you. We must never allow mere reporting of facts to usurp verification of facts in the proper application of journalistic principles to news disemination & information.

Dec 30 (Reuters) - Benazir Bhutto's party appointed her son and her husband to succeed the slain Pakistani opposition leader on Sunday and the party said it would take part in a Jan 8 election as Bhutto would have wanted.

Here is a chronology of recent major political events.

March 9, 2007 - President Pervez Musharraf suspends Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry over allegations of misconduct. Lawyers rally around the top judge and Musharraf's popularity plummets.
July 10 - Musharraf orders troops to storm the Red Mosque in Islamabad to crush a Taliban-style movement there. At least 105 people are killed. Militant attacks and suicide bombings follow.
July 20 - Supreme Court reinstates Chief Justice Chaudhry, dealing a blow to Musharraf's authority.
July 27 - Musharraf meets former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Abu Dhabi for inconclusive talks on how to move the country towards a civilian-led democracy. Bhutto demands that Musharraf step down as army chief.
Sept 10 - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is arrested at Islamabad airport on his arrival from exile, despite the Supreme Court clearing his return. He is deported to Saudi Arabia.
Oct 2 - Musharraf's government announces it will drop graft charges against Bhutto, clearing the way for her return.
Oct 6 - Musharraf wins a presidential vote by legislators. Supreme Court holds off confirming legality of vote.
Oct 19 - Suicide bomber tries to assassinate Bhutto in Karachi as she returns from eight years of exile. At least 139 people are killed in one of the country's deadliest attacks.
Nov 2 - Supreme Court reconvenes to decide if Musharraf was eligible to stand for re-election while army chief.
Nov 3 - Musharraf imposes emergency rule, detaining thousands of opposition politicians and lawyers.
Nov 11 - Musharraf says election will be held by Jan. 8.
Nov 13 - Bhutto is placed under house arrest for a week in Lahore, hours before planned march against emergency rule. Bhutto says Musharraf must quit as president.
Nov 14 - Sharif says he is ready to work with Bhutto.
Nov 15 - Musharraf appoints Senate chairman Mohammadmian Soomro to head a caretaker government to oversee elections.
Nov 25 - Sharif returns from exile.
Nov 28 - A tearful Musharraf hands over command of the army to General Ashfaq Kayani.
Nov 29 - Musharraf is sworn in as a civilian leader.
Dec 9 - Sharif says he will take part in Jan. 8 election.
Dec 15 - Musharraf lifts state of emergency and restores the constitution.
Dec 27 - Bhutto is assassinated in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in Rawalpindi. Violence flares in Pakistan as angry supporters of Bhutto take to the streets. At least 47 people have been killed in days of violent protests.
Dec 30 - Bhutto's 19-year-old son is appointed chairman of her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) along with his father, Asif Ali Zardari, who is to be co-chairman. -- Zardari says the party will take part in the election as his assassinated wife would have wanted. (Writing by David Cutler and Gill Murdoch, London Editorial Reference Unit)
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL30209186

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