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Pakistan

Pakistani politics has always been a hotbed of intrigue, betrayals and double-dealings. This is hardly new. Expect riots now, and the next PM to suffer a similar fate.
 
It's worth noting, that in this particular case, the system - such that it is - appears to have worked.

Khan's party tried to duck out of a no confidence motion he would have lost, the Supreme Court stepped in and said "Not so fast", and the motion was voted on and passed.

It's interesting to note that the Pakistani military appears to have acted passively in this, aside from apparently subtly letting Khan and deputy speaker Suri know they weren't pleased with their behaviour.
 
lionking said:
It’s always worrying when a nation with nuclear weapons is unstable.
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My understanding is that the Pakistani weapons are disassembled, with the subassemblies stored at separate sites. And that there is some degree of distance between the military units controlling access and assembly, and the politicians running the government. So, ironically, it would have to be a very stable Pakistan, with a lot of alignment between government and military, to actually get the nuke parts out of storage, put them together, and start using them. Like if India was about to overrun the country or something.
 
lionking said:
It’s always worrying when a nation with nuclear weapons is unstable.
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True, but when has Pakistan not been unstable?
And India is no better under that nutjob Modi.
What is worrying is with Pakistan and India you have two nations with nukes that just plain hate each other.
 
dudalb said:
True, but when has Pakistan not been unstable?
And India is no better under that nutjob Modi.
What is worrying is with Pakistan and India you have two nations with nukes that just plain hate each other.
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The thing is that the current government in India, they hate a large number of its ow citizens. Pakistan is just an excuse to oppress a large number of our own population...and I am not talking just about the Muslims in India.

From what I hear, the probable replacement is from the Nawaz Sharief camp. And Sharief and Modi have rather cozy relationship where each "helps" the other with poll numbers. The maximum number of attacks by "Pakistani insurgents" in India has been when Modi's "close friend" Sharief was at the helm in Pakistan. Most of these attacks helped greatly in the polls for Modi and the BJP.
 
Once again demonstrating what happens if you're the Prime Minister of Pakistan and fall out of favour with the army.

I was uncomfortable with the way that Imran Khan was pandering to the religious nutjobs, but I think I'm even more uncomfortable with the Pakistan Army being the voice of moderation.
 
I'm not normally an optimist, but this looks a lot better than the even more newsworthy changes of govrenment that Pakistan has had in the past.
 
For posterity's sake:

"Shehbaz Sharif elected as new Prime Minister of Pakistan completing the ousting of predecessor Imran Khan"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04...minister-shehbaz-sharif-ousted-khan/100983938

"Shehbaz, 70, who has a reputation domestically as an effective administrator more than as a politician, is the younger brother of three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

"Analysts say Shehbaz, unlike Nawaz, enjoys amicable relations with Pakistan's military, which traditionally controls foreign and defence policy in the nuclear-armed nation of 220 million people."

"Just minutes before the vote, legislators from Mr Khan's party resigned en masse from the lower house of parliament in protest at the expected formation of a government by his political opponents.

''The mass resignations will require fresh by-elections in well over 100 seats."
 
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Imran Khan has been arrested in Pakistan.

"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."


"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."


https://apnews.com/article/55a53535b91051da679c9b57b0bc9a54
 
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