Pakistan

 Times of India

By M.K. Bhadrakumar | Asia Times | July 29, 2018 Circumstantial evidence can be marshaled to establish that a level playing field was not available to Pakistan’s two mainstream political parties – the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the Pakistan People’s Party – in the parliamentary poll on July 25. But that alone cannot delegitimize […]

Defense budgets, nation states, and congressional mugshots + this day in history w/the sinking of the USS Indianaoplis and our song of the day by Clutch on your Morning Monarchy for July 30, 2018.

Defense budgets, nation states, and congressional mugshots + this day in history w/the sinking of the USS Indianaoplis and our song of the day by Clutch on your Morning Monarchy for July 30, 2018.

From the comments section of this post: After Pakistan’s Soft Coup- Imran Khan’s Dangerous Victory 

via NPRShamila N. Chaudhary (@ShamilaCh) is senior adviser to the dean at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a fellow at the school's Foreign Policy Institute and senior fellow at New America. She served as director for Pakistan and Afghanistan on the National Security Council during the Obama administration.

Another stroke of sheer luck for Imran Khan! What timing. How convenient.

During the fallout from his failure to score victory during the last election, in 2013, Islamabad saw the ‘wrath of Khan’ in the protests which were led by his party members while Khan claimed the election was rigged against him. This time, however, Khan has come out the victor and most of the opposition has admitted it, although some claims of election rigging are still floating around.

I’d started working on this yesterday: Personal matters kept me from finishing.Shocked and flummoxed cannot begin to describe my feeling when reading 5 eyes alt media present Khan's win as  anything remotely close to being a good thing for Pakistan. But then what else to expect from 5 eyes alt media that actually claimed the US backed Kurds were the best fighters against US backed ISIS.??  Or one that suggests another nations government needs to be violently overthrown.

Tariq Ali, whilst having a lunch in Knightsbridge with the Pakistani cricket colossus, Imran Khan, suggested that retirement should not be too problematic for him.  (Khan had seemed gloomy, deep in thought about post-retirement prospects at the age of 30.)  Consider, posed Ali, film, or at the very least funding for a film institute.  “You could be an enabler or you could act.  A film with you in it would be a surefire hit and help fund more avant-garde productions.”