vendredi, 16 novembre 2007
EUROPE & POLITIQUE ETRANGERE : UNE OCCASION LOUPEE DE PLUS DE L’OUVRIR…
A force de ne pas prendre suffisamment position là où l’urgence de la situation l’impose, l’Europe n’a jamais autant bien correspondu à l’image de «géant de papier» que beaucoup se font d’elle. L’actualité internationale, au Pakistan, en Birmanie, en Géorgie ne manque pourtant pas d’occasions pour elle d’affirmer sa propre vision des relations internationales…01:05 Publié dans EMMANUEL DUPUY, RELATIONS EXTERIEURES | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : europe, birmanie, pakistan, georgie, emmanuel dupuy, europeus.org
lundi, 05 novembre 2007
ANOTHER DARK DAY FOR PAKISTAN
A few months ago I was criticized because in one of my articles I was referring to General Musharraf as one of the worst dictators and I was sure that he has no intention to let Pakistan know democracy; after all, he was the last in a long chain of military dictators in this poor country. The commentator who, as he said at least, came from Pakistan was suggesting that perhaps democracy had a chance with General Musharraf and his slow and peaceful transaction from a militaristic dictatorship or regime, as the commentator argued, to a parliamentary democracy with control over corruption and violence. My argument to that was that if we only look at the 20th century, from Salazar, Franco, Hitler, Mussolini to Idi Amin, Marcos, Saddam Hussein and Musharraf’s predecessor Muhammad Zia we will see that the corruption of the politicians has been always their excuse to lead their countries to the edge of total catastrophe.12:19 Publié dans ENGLISH EDITION, RELATIONS EXTERIEURES, THANOS KALAMIDAS | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : pakistan, Musharraf, thanos kalamidas, europeus.org
samedi, 06 octobre 2007
PAKISTAN: MS BHUTTO'S DISINFORMATION
Worse than accepting a dictator is giving him an alibi for all of his or her actions and it gets even worse when this alibi is covered with excuses for democracy. Unfortunately this is exactly what the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has done. In a press conference in London she announced her return to Pakistan after a power sharing deal with Pervez Musharraf.07:13 Publié dans ENGLISH EDITION, RELATIONS EXTERIEURES, THANOS KALAMIDAS | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf, taliban, thanos kalamidas, europeus.org
jeudi, 20 septembre 2007
PAKISTAN : THE CREATION OF A MONSTER
How can you negotiate and trust somebody who took over a country with a military coup using all the resources the state gave him, exiled or imprisoned all the opposition with a lot of questionable disappearances and changed the state's constitution with only one aim to serve his personal interests? How can you trust somebody who ignored the will of the people and put them in chains hiding the key in his pocket and having openly expressed the will never to leave his powerful position?13:10 Publié dans ENGLISH EDITION, RELATIONS EXTERIEURES, THANOS KALAMIDAS | Lien permanent | Commentaires (1) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : politic, pakistan, US, thanos kalamidas, europeus.org
dimanche, 24 juin 2007
SALMAN RUSHDIE’S KNIGHTHOOD ANGER
Indian-born writer, Salman Rushdie may be a wanted man amongst Muslims, but in Britain he is a hero. During the weekend, he was knighted by the English Queen Elizabeth II, in honor of his writings and outstanding achievements. The 60-year-old Rushdie was one of the Queen’s 950 special guests at her birthday on Saturday.11:40 Publié dans AMIN GEORGE FORJI, CULTURE, CULTURES & RELIGIONS, RELATIONS EXTERIEURES | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : rushdie, iran, pakistan, britain, uk, india, islam
jeudi, 16 novembre 2006
PAKISTAN: A RELIGIOUS KING!
I always wondered what a Pakistani politician would have thought if they heard tomorrow that the Pope became the prime minister of Italy or that the Archbishop of Athens became the ruler of Greece. I bet the first reaction would be shock and then imagination would create the rest. You see, history has given us enough information for our imagination to create stories out of these possibilities. But let's explore a bit further. Since a religious leader would have become a ruler that means that all the people who live in the land would have to be Christians, otherwise an army of praetorians, let's call them the Inquisition, would come arrest you and take you to prison. Of course, the media wouldn't exist in the form that we know them.
00:40 Publié dans CULTURES & RELIGIONS, ENGLISH EDITION, POLITIQUE, RELATIONS EXTERIEURES | Lien permanent | Commentaires (1) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : politics, pakistan, musharraf, religion, pope, Thanos Kalamidas
vendredi, 29 septembre 2006
BUSH JOUE LES MEDIATEURS ENTRE KARZAI ET MUSHARRAF
(Par GUY TAILLEFER / Source : Le Devoir – Canada) Dans un effort de médiation qui, dans l'immédiat, le fait paraître sans grande influence politique, le président George W. Bush a réuni mercredi soir à la Maison-Blanche Hamid Karzaï et Pervez Musharraf dans l'espoir de calmer le jeu entre deux voisins engagés dans un bruyant affrontement verbal autour des ratés de la «guerre contre le terrorisme» en Afghanistan et au Pakistan. Ils se sont laissés après le dîner, a-t-on fait savoir par voie de communiqué, sur la vague promesse de «mieux coordonner leur action contre les terroristes». Les deux hommes s'accusent mutuellement d'être responsables de la résurgence de la violente guérilla talibane. Incendiaire, le président Musharraf reproche à son homologue de «faire l'autruche» devant la détérioration de sa propre situation politique. M. Karzaï ne cache pas qu'à son avis, le président pakistanais n'en fait pas assez d'un point de vue militaire pour neutraliser les militants talibans qui, du nord du Pakistan, traversent la frontière en Afghanistan. Il est particulièrement agacé, comme le sont les États-Unis, par un pacte récemment conclu avec des chefs tribaux du nord du pays, par lequel l'armée pakistanaise, dit M. Karzaï, se trouve à laisser le champ libre aux talibans. (lire la suite)
12:59 Publié dans LU AILLEURS, RELATIONS EXTERIEURES | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : bush, karzaï, musharraf, pakistan, afghanistan, talibans