now this didn't surprise me at all

[winterbadger]

Pakistan deports ex-PM on return

Heard this on the news this morning and chuckled to myself. Yes, Mr Sharif, you can legally return. But no one said you could *stay*.

Honestly, this man is about as committed to democracy as a pig is committed to dieting. Being prime minister meant for him the ability to line his pockets, find jobs for his family and political cronies, and dream up ways to employ the forms of government to illegally suppress dissent and protect his corrupt governance.

I'm not sure what to wish for Pakistan. I think General Musharraf is undoubtedly the best man to preserve the nation's stability and security at this point. I don't believe that there are any civilian political leaders who can be trusted with government. But I do believe that somehow states need to evolve towards democracy, or they will forever be dictatorships where ruling power is handed (or seized) from one hand to another. I just don't quite know how one gets to a stable democracy from the position that many developing nations find themselves in today.

But I do know that it seems very unlikely to me that an invading foreign army is the way to move forward...

Comments

[cmlc.livejournal.com]

So the same wikipedia page says that the 2001 Indian census says that muslims make up 13.4% of the population, and 16.4% of the population? Oh well, maybe it's true what they say about Wikipedia :)
http://www.censusindia.net gives the total figure at 138188240 - I can't be bothered working out the percentage, but it sounds closer to your wikipedia figure than to mine :-)