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STATE OF EMERGENCY WASN’T TARGETED AT RADICAL ISLAMISTS AS MUSHARRAF CLAIMED

Daniel Twining, Fulbright/Oxford Scholar Oxford University, The Weekly Standard November 19, 2007
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/343rpqza.asp?pg=2

Musharraf says he was forced to declare martial law by the threat of an Islamist takeover. But he has used his emergency powers only to eviscerate the democratic political opposition. Those targeted for immediate arrest following the suspension of constitutional rule were not the extremists whose madrassas have flourished under military rule or the tribal leaders in cahoots with the Taliban on the frontier. Instead, the police rounded up democratic activists, opposition politicians, human rights advocates, lawyers, and judges. "It would be hard to imagine a group less threatening to the security of Pakistan," said U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson.


THE STATE OF EMERGENCY ISN’T ABOUT FIGHTING EXTREMISM IT WAS ABOUT......

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