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from Pakistan: Now or Never?:
Is Pakistan’s sovereignty under threat?
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said non-state actors may have been behind the attacks in Mumbai and therefore big nations shouldn't allow themselves to be held hostage to their actions
But what is the world to do if such actors operate from the territory of a state and the state is unable or unwilling to act against them, especially because they were created by its intelligence agencies in the first place, asks leading U.S. scholar Robert Kagan at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visiting the region to try and limit the fallout said even if non-state actors carried out the attacks, it would still be the Pakistani government’s responsibility to take “direct and tough action.”
Tsunami of anger over financial crisis
Today’s European edition of the International Herald Tribune is fronted by a photo montage of the presidents of Senegal, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Argentina, France and Brazil.
They have two things in common – all are attending this week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York and all see a global threat from the financial crisis that began on Wall Street and, in the words of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines, has moved “like a terrible tsunami around the globe”.
Some of the strongest words were directed at Washington lawmakers, Wall Street speculators and market regulators.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for those responsible for the crisis to be punished. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has said to the United States and Britain: “I told you so”.
Well might McCain rush back to Washington to fix the American finance system-after all, he’s one of the ones who broke it through deregulation. He’s also the fellow who told the world a week ago that the American economy was fine. On one hand, American voters can choose a man with a doctorate in law who graduated from an eminent university magnum cum laude, on the other hand, a man who was in the bottom 1% of his class. Doesn’t it seem that the current challenges call for the most intelligent leadership?
Gaddafi – No longer “Mad Dog” of Middle East
Once called the “mad dog of the Middle East” by President Ronald Reagan, Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi will meet U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week.
Senior State Department official David Welch told reporters he had met Gaddafi — “a person of personality and experience” — several times.
“We don’t refer to Colonel Gaddafi in those terms today,” said Welch when asked about Reagan’s derogatory reference.
He anticipated Rice, America’s most senior diplomat, was “quite capable” of meeting with Gaddafi and looking after U.S. interests.
Mr Gaddafi will remain always as “Mad Dog”,he will never change. He is one of the bull leaders of Africa. The only way out to get rid of him is to throw him from ruling the Libian poeple.We Africans hate him very much. We dont even want to hear about him. So,Americans please don’t discuss with him just…..away.
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There are no easy answers for Pakistan. It is a completely messed up country. Poor, uneducated and completely wild and ungovernable in most areas. Most of the educated and rich people of Pakistan migrated to the UK in the 50s and 60s. The ones left became the agents for US. People like Imran Khan should be running the country, democratic minded and good leadership skills. He can rid the country of the evil role played by the Army-ISI nexus.