Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:This is one of those scary scenarios. The thing is the USA has refrained from bombing any other nuclear power and they have done the same, until now. The closest the world ever came to this was the late 1960's when PRC-China and the USSR were shooting at each other with conventional weapons over a border dispute.
Now you have nuclear armed India sending planes to bomb inside nuclear armed Pakistan. Very easy for this sort of thing to get out of hand.
GASMON wrote:Mad as march hares the lot of them !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ImfIoX6zTM
Who gave this crazy lot Nukes ?
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested and dragged from court Tuesday as he appeared to face charges in multiple graft cases, a dramatic escalation of political tensions that sparked violent demonstrations by his angry supporters across the country.
The arrest of Khan, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April 2022 but remains the leading opposition figure, represented the latest confrontation to roil Pakistan, which has seen former prime ministers arrested over the years and interventions by its powerful military.
At least one person was reported killed in clashes between protesters and the military in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, with another five people wounded there, while about 15 injuries were reported amid similar violence in Karachi, Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Lahore. Police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrations.
Amid the violence, officials at Pakistan’s telecommunication authority said regulators blocked social media, including Twitter, and internet service was suspended in the capital of Islamabad and other cities. Classes at some private schools were canceled for Wednesday.
Khan was removed from the Islamabad High Court by security agents from the National Accountability Bureau, said Fawad Chaudhry, a senior official with his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, and then shoved into an armored car and whisked away.
Chaudhry denounced the arrest of the 71-year-old former cricket star as “an abduction.” Pakistan’s independent GEO TV broadcast video of Khan being hauled away.
This seems to be a new trend in failing democracies......the authorities arrest and prosecute the leading opposition candidate before an election to disrupt his campaign. Of course this raises real doubts about how fair the next election can be under these circumstances.
Plantagenet wrote:The Pakistan army has just called out the army to quell unrest after the authorities there arrested the main opposition political candidate
This is why we can't have nice things......
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This seems to be a new trend in failing democracies......the authorities arrest and prosecute the leading opposition candidate before an election to disrupt his campaign. Of course this raises real doubts about how fair the next election can be under these circumstances. Perhaps Pakistan is now actually a dictatorship just pretending to have elections......
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