De Commerciele Massamedia 134

Voor mijn ongeinformeerde en ongeinteresseerde collega's bij het NOS-Journaal en natuurlijk voor de lezers van deze weblog achtergrondinformatie van een deskundige over Pakistan. Informatie o.a. over de gangster Zardari, de weduwnaar van wijlen Benazir Bhutto:

"Pakistan Amidst the Storms
Graham Usher
June 27, 2008

But there is another reason for the PPP’s tardiness. Reinstatement could rend the delicate understandings stitched together between Musharraf and Bhutto in 2007. She had agreed to back him as a civilian president if he agreed to grant amnesty to her, Zardari and her party on a raft of corruption cases pending from their periods in government. Zardari fears that a reinstated independent judiciary would annul the amnesty. And Musharraf insists he has delivered on his side of the pact: He let Bhutto return from exile, withdrew the government’s cases against her family, resigned as army chief and allowed free elections on February 18 -- so free that his own “king’s party,” the PML-Q, was routed. He now expects the PPP to reciprocate. So does Washington."

Lees verder: http://www.merip.org/mero/mero062708.html

Luister ook naar een onthullend interview met Graham Usher in het uitstekende radioprogramma: This is Hell:

'12 july 2008
That day's complete broadcast: MP3 Streaming MP3
live from Islamabad, Graham Usher is a contributing editor of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org/). Graham is the author of "Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process" (Pluto Press). His most recent writing includes "Pakistan Amidst the Storms" and "Getting Pakistan Wrong."'

Zie: http://www.thisishell.net/archives_2008.html