Pakistani Describes Killing of Daughters

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The anti-Honour-killings laws aren't enforced that strongly in Pakistan when they should be, this Islamization that was introduced in the 1980s during the Zia-ul-Haq era really screwed over the country in the long-run.

Supporting him was a terrible mistake that culminated in a huge viral terrorist mess all over Pakistan. There is probably a whole host of terrorist groups that can point to Zia and say that he gave them the breakthroughs that they needed.

I hope Musharraf can make some progress on this issue, he certainly has a lot on his plate concerning Afghanistan, Iran, India, Kashmir; though economically he is a top-notch leader with Pakistan having better prospects for growth, job creation and poverty reduction in nearly a decade.

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I'm afraid that one execution would not help to cure this infestation of religious.  I would suggest feeding all of the population to swine, or at least the male half (or what is it in those countries, the male 60% ?)

Pakistan is probably a bare female majority country.

The Gulf-Arab countries have extremely lopsided gender-ratios.  But this can be attributed to Pakistani and Indian males seeking work and than sending remittances back home.

This is the similar immigration pattern that occured with Pakistani immigration to Northern England. For example in Bradford where initially in the 1960s there were 89 females to 3,000 males, before Pakistanis actually chose to settle in the UK as entire family units instead of transitory male workers.

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Is there anything wrong with Pakistan that *wasn't* in some way Zia-ul-Haq's fault? (not been sarcastic here at all...)
Died in an *extremely* convenient plane crash IIRC...

Well Nawaz Sharif/Benazir Bhutto have made mistakes but none that match the level of Zia. 

There is some interesting controversey surrounding the plane-crash actually. I'v heard that the pilots were Pakistani Shiite Muslims that took him out, similar to the Sikh-Indhira Gandhi mess in India nearly 4 years earlier.

Another story I'v recently heard is one that was brought up by the American ambassador to India that claimed that Israel by way of Mossad took out Zia.

Another story is that Iran or India played a hand, but I doubt that.

And no matter who played a role in it, they are true freedom fighters.

Well all that in mind.. Pervez Musharraf is by the best leader Pakistan has had since the 1960s/1970s.