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...unerring commitment of French governments, on the right and the left, in favor of cultural diversity ... goes well beyond the simple defense of French culture. But as TIME rightly underlines, this solid consensus ? must not be a pretext for withdrawal into ourselves. It must on the contrary incite us to be audacious, to bet on the talent of new generations, by widening access to culture, by opening France still more to sensibilities from beyond its borders. Jean-Marie Bockel, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR COOPERATION AND FRANCOPHONE AFFAIRS, IN LE FIGARO...
...Musharraf shut down news channels on the pretext that they incite Pakistanis against the government. The corrupt Benazir Bhutto could become Prime Minister, having been pardoned through a controversial ordinance for stealing $1.5 billion from the Pakistani public. The judges who were going to strike down the ordinance were removed and put under house arrest after being manhandled by the local police. Militancy, suicide attacks and other forms of terrorism have increased greatly under Musharraf's rule. I am reminded of when the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein while he was brutally killing his own people. Will Pakistan end up like...
...erupting across the land. Since the imposition of emergency rule, the violence has actually gotten worse: sectarian strife on the Afghan border has claimed more than 100 lives, and at least four police and eight frontier-corps soldiers have been beheaded in Swat. "Musharraf's emergency was just a pretext," says Shah Jehan, director of the Institute of Management Studies at Peshawar University. "If he really wanted to do something [about terrorism] he would have pulled the plug on the FM Mullah. Instead, things are getting worse...
...Pakistan's Emergency Re Simon Robinson's "Pakistan's state of Emergency" [Nov. 19]: President Pervez Musharraf shut down news channels on the pretext that they incite Pakistanis against the government. Militancy, suicide attacks and other forms of terrorism have increased under his rule. Will Pakistan end up like Iraq? Amer Azam, Lahore, Pakistan...
...made some allegations against the judges, and they are allegations that they must respond to. They are very serious allegations. Without going into the merits of the allegations, I'm simply saying that there are ways to deal with these allegations of misconduct and not use them as a pretext for the imposition of martial...