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Last Updated: Sunday, 4
November 2007, 00:10 GMT


Musharraf defends emergency rule

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has defended his decision to
declare emergency rule, saying he could not allow the country to commit
suicide.

In a televised address he said Pakistan had reached a crisis brought
about by militant violence and a judiciary which had paralysed the
government.


The chief justice has been replaced and the Supreme Court surrounded
by troops.

The moves came as the Supreme Court was due to rule on the legality
of Gen Musharraf's October election victory.


The court was to decide whether Gen Musharraf was eligible to run for
re-election last month while remaining army chief.


The BBC's Barbara Plett reports from Islamabad that fears had been
growing in the government that the Supreme Court ruling could go against
Gen Musharraf.

It is not clear whether the parliamentary elections due in January
will go ahead. Gen Musharraf made no mention of them in his speech, but
he insisted he wanted to restore democracy.


Suicide warning


Pakistan has been engulfed in political upheaval in recent months,
and the security forces have suffered a series of blows from pro-Taleban
militants opposed to Gen Musharraf's support for the US-led "war on
terror".

In a lengthy televised speech late on Saturday, Mr Musharraf said the
situation had forced him into making "some very painful decisions".

"I suspect that Pakistan's sovereignty is in danger unless timely
action is taken," he said.


He insisted his decisions were made for the benefit of Pakistan.

"Extremists are roaming around freely in the country, and they are
not scared of law-enforcement agencies," the president said.


As well as defending emergency rule to the Pakistani people, Gen
Musharraf also appealed directly to his Western allies for patience.

"Kindly understand the criticality of the situation in Pakistan and
around Pakistan. Pakistan is on the verge of destabilisation," he said.

"Inaction at this moment is suicide for Pakistan and I cannot allow
this country to commit suicide."


Condemnation


Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who recently returned to the
country after years of self-exile to lead her party in planned
parliamentary elections, was in Dubai on a personal visit when news of
the declaration broke.

However, she immediately flew back to Karachi where she condemned Gen Musharraf's decision, saying emergency rule had been imposed so
elections could be avoided.

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written by jia.

  ..so lately i have been in this stay-up-till 7am, ungrammatical, nostalgic, talk to myself. paranoid, insomniac, wide eyed, and a little intense. okie maybe little is an understatement. wish i knew if i wanted stability more than the complete range of emotions and melodrama. if only life could be summarized in one simple word...good or bad. -im too young to be stuck somewhere in the middle, sitting on a fence and whining about it. no, i cant write an intro for myself, hence i ask you to read the damn blog. maybe.. you'll find out more through my posts. n in the meanwhile take a panadol handy.. .

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One crow sorrow
Two crows mirth
Three crows a joining
Four crows a birth
Five crows lucky
Six crows cold
Seven crows a secret
Never to be told

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- Lately...

 When I was a child
a story was told
about the devil
and a girl so bold.
He offered her riches,
a fortune of gold,
and lovers abound.
But she lifted her soul,
she lifted her soul clean.
Like the story was told
on a dark country road
the same man appeared to me...

But I reached, I reached
through the rain to the Devil's feet.

Now twenty years later
to the place I return where I scorned the angels
for a passion that burned.
There set in a tree
a knot twisted and turned,
the face of a creature Hell bound.
So long ago
could my mind've played jokes on me?
As darkness sets in,
unavoidable sin,
the truth I try not to believe....

That I reached, I reached
through the rain to the Devil's feet.

-by Azure Ray

 

ode to meaning..

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And i know
I may end up failing too
But i know
You were just like me with someone disappointed in you..
I've become so Numb...I can't feel you there.

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calculated distractions

broken promises ..

said he: tum jaisay doosron say bhaagti ho aur chupati ho .. wohi mere saath bhi kiya....  "  

~*~  current mood ...

                 

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