[According to political analysts, there were many contributing factors.] The decline of the MMA had started much before the local government elections, ... They failed to deliver the goods to their electorates. |
Because there were no political parties and because there were no party manifestos, we just had a ballot with symbols and pictures that was meaningless. |
Broad perceptions among Pakistanis of the government as indifferent to them are being reinforced, |
Broad perceptions among Pakistanis of the government as indifferent to them are being reinforced. |
I believe demonstrations have been planned by human rights groups who are far more annoyed at the human rights situation in Pakistan than General Musharraf. |
Islamic extremists have exploited the political vacuum elsewhere and could here too, |
It would have made a difference if he had been elected president. It might have even made a difference if he had given up his title of chief of army staff, |
It's a huge decision for them to take; there will obviously be some that are averse to shifting the role. |
It's just a silly allegation that Bangladesh has been denying the existence of extremists. We have been aggressively hunting them from the moment we knew they existed, |
The US should have pursued the war on terror more seriously. If they'd pinched the ears of Pakistan to make them do more when the war had started, we would not be in the situation we are now. These are fundamental issues that need to be resolved. Nowhere in the world is the use of military force against your own people the answer. |
There are the same sets of problems in Bangladesh now that Pakistan faced. Who is keeping an eye on these kids and what they are being taught? |
These are very early stages of threat that could assume more dangerous proportions ... I think the Indonesian case is the same. If you deal with these issues far earlier on and in terms of an inclusive political process you can stop the rot. |
These parties are the most effective safeguard against the religious lobby's anti-western agenda and still present the most credible alternatives to authoritarian rule. |
We will see how far he addresses these concerns. |
What are these young children being educated for?, ... To be clerics. But how many clerics can an economy absorb? Very few. They are misfits and they can be exploited. |