Bad News From Pakistan

This has truly been a Good News, Bad News, and now more Bad News day!!

There is Bad News From Pakistan just days after it looked like things could be worked out, as the Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in four days to prevent her staging a march on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said. A close aide to the former prime minister said she would try to lead the 185-mile procession anyway. The showdown intensified the political crisis engulfing Pakistan and further clouded the prospect of a pro-U.S. alliance against rising Islamic extremism forming between Bhutto and President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

The next few days are crucial and Washington better pull out all the stops and do anything it can to assist Pakistan in its' time of crisis. If things go badly there, it shall have reprecussions long into the future. This is their "dark" night of the soul and the existence of their country is at stake! I wish them the very best and hope they can prevail as a somewhat democratic country, intact, and not fall to the forces of al-Qaeda and extremists!!


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