Pakistan is an interesting study in politics right now (in the Chinese sense.) I think the middle-class people who live in and around the Indus valley, with the greatest concentration around Lahore, really *do* want some kind of democratic republic[1]. The tribes in the western mountains would be happier with a caliphate, provided they were in charge of it. The hordes of desperately poor urbanites aren't sure what they want, but they're convinced right now that their hopes died yesterday and they feel no reason to hold back from rioting.
[1] Of course they want the voting districts gerymandered to insure that they dominate in the vote because Insh'allah you don't want Those People running the country.
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Date: 2007-12-28 06:42 pm (UTC)[1] Of course they want the voting districts gerymandered to insure that they dominate in the vote because Insh'allah you don't want Those People running the country.