On 3/19/08, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is some financial fiction in one or the other. Apart from a suggestion > to me that the Pakistan Army may have paid Dalrymple to speak of "corrupt > Pakistani politicians" with not a chirp about the Pakistani army itself which > has a huge role to play in Pakistan's current cheerful situation. That is > typical Pakistani army apologist language and it looks like Dalrymple may > have joined a long list of Western journalists who have been "magically > convinced" to speak "Pearls" on behalf of the Pakistan army. I remember reading a lot of foriegn agency news items on how wonderful has life been in Pakistan under the professional government supported by military and how press has been more free, than under democratic governments. There is no way to look at the alternate timeline though.
However the malls and highways constructed are not going away ? -Tarun
