Comments on: Should Pakistan return to the Commonwealth? http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/ Insights from the UK and beyond Wed, 22 May 2013 07:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Tom Morgan http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-2282 Tom Morgan Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:49:00 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/#comment-2282 Yeah, why not. At the end of the day, we all play cricket. Yeah, why not. At the end of the day, we all play cricket.

]]> By: SUHAIB http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-2201 SUHAIB Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:25:57 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/#comment-2201 i think that pakistan should be restored to commonwealth after a democratic process of pakistan which is already started exact after the elections of 2008. i think that pakistan should be restored to commonwealth after a democratic process of pakistan which is already started exact after the elections of 2008.

]]> By: MMA http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-2152 MMA Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:00:05 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/#comment-2152 No, thanks. Pakistan does not need commonwealth membership. It is a reminder of british rule, nothing else. We need to be independent of any and all influences. After all they have set it up to serve themselves. MMA No, thanks. Pakistan does not need commonwealth membership. It is a reminder of british rule, nothing else. We need to be independent of any and all influences. After all they have set it up to serve themselves.
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]]> By: Kabura http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-2121 Kabura Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:50:36 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/#comment-2121 No! Pakistan must first eliminate her terror factories in all their forms and manifestations. Send their Saudi friends (al-Qaeda) home or to Uncle Sam. Pakistan MUST stop using terrorism and religious extremism as an intrument of policy or waging war, which should be enough as an argument to exclude Pakistan from the UN itself, not to mention the Club of the Colonial Glory&Nostalgia (Commonwealth). West will soon regret its ambivalence policy toward Pakistan, which needs to be taken pretty seriously. It doesn't help the "war on terror" if you send too early and wrong signals to the "genious" strategists in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Nothing has changed. al-Qaeda is stronger and more dangerous than ever, and they are based in Pakistan. No! Pakistan must first eliminate her terror factories in all their forms and manifestations. Send their Saudi friends (al-Qaeda) home or to Uncle Sam.
Pakistan MUST stop using terrorism and religious extremism as an intrument of policy or waging war, which should be enough as an argument to exclude Pakistan from the UN itself, not to mention the Club of the Colonial Glory&Nostalgia (Commonwealth).

West will soon regret its ambivalence policy toward Pakistan, which needs to be taken pretty seriously. It doesn’t help the “war on terror” if you send too early and wrong signals to the “genious” strategists in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Nothing has changed. al-Qaeda is stronger and more dangerous than ever, and they are based in Pakistan.

]]> By: Conscientious Observer http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-2112 Conscientious Observer Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:19:33 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/#comment-2112 Won't this upset the applecart for the number of Pakistanies that are so anti-West! Good luck to the Government for wanting the Pakistani people to benefit from improving cultral understanding and communications with other countries. Perhaps through this path 'both sides of the fence' won't take such a stereotypical view of one another. Fingers crossed. Won’t this upset the applecart for the number of Pakistanies that are so anti-West! Good luck to the Government for wanting the Pakistani people to benefit from improving cultral understanding and communications with other countries. Perhaps through this path ‘both sides of the fence’ won’t take such a stereotypical view of one another. Fingers crossed.

]]> By: Alex http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-2107 Alex Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:53:18 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/#comment-2107 Yes, Pakistan should be admitted back into the Commonwealth immediately so this regretful episode can finally end. It was wrong to use the Commonwealth as a leveraging tool and remove Pakistan considering the very serious security situation they were facing at that time from multiple angles. Instead, the Commonwealth should have extended their hand out to Pakistan as Pakistan has been our biggest ally in the war on terror. Yes, Pakistan should be admitted back into the Commonwealth immediately so this regretful episode can finally end. It was wrong to use the Commonwealth as a leveraging tool and remove Pakistan considering the very serious security situation they were facing at that time from multiple angles. Instead, the Commonwealth should have extended their hand out to Pakistan as Pakistan has been our biggest ally in the war on terror.

]]> By: Safdar Jafri http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-2103 Safdar Jafri Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:00:13 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/#comment-2103 Commonwealth is nothing more than a moral authority. It cannot impose sanctions or any economic or political penalties. Whether Pakistan is in or out, does not make any tangible difference. However, as an organization of ex-British colonies, commonwealth certainly does provide Pakistan's political system a sort of moral legitimacy as well as a forum to interact with other countries with whom it shares a common past. So, yes, Pakistan should try and get back into the commonwealth. Commonwealth is nothing more than a moral authority. It cannot impose sanctions or any economic or political penalties. Whether Pakistan is in or out, does not make any tangible difference. However, as an organization of ex-British colonies, commonwealth certainly does provide Pakistan’s political system a sort of moral legitimacy as well as a forum to interact with other countries with whom it shares a common past. So, yes, Pakistan should try and get back into the commonwealth.

]]> By: beecee http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-2099 beecee Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:01:53 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/21/should-pakistan-return-to-the-commonwealth/#comment-2099 Yes, it's time Pakistan was back in the Commonwealth. Its exclusion didn't harm the people at whom it was aimed : it contributed to isolation of those who should be encouraged to travel and benefit from overseas education with Commonwealth asistance. (Few people in Pakistan are concerned about the Commonwealth in any event : it's widely regarded as irrelevant.) It is not only in Pakistan that there are many people sympathetic to al Qaeda. But even then, this should not be a criterion for membership of the Commonwealth. Yes, it’s time Pakistan was back in the Commonwealth.

Its exclusion didn’t harm the people at whom it was aimed : it contributed to isolation of those who should be encouraged to travel and benefit from overseas education with Commonwealth asistance. (Few people in Pakistan are concerned about the Commonwealth in any event : it’s widely regarded as irrelevant.)

It is not only in Pakistan that there are many people sympathetic to al Qaeda. But even then, this should not be a criterion for membership of the Commonwealth.

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