Archive for May 8th, 2007

Press Conference of the Year

08May07

Shaukat Aziz’s latest is my nomination. Some highlights of Mr. Aziz’s comments: the Constitution allows for the option of imposing a state of national emergency ‘but its use depended on conditions and circumstances as laid down in the book’ [as reported by Dawn]. “the May 12 rally in Islamabad would be in support of the presidential reference [...]

The Woolmer case gets weirder and weirder

08May07

There’s something seriously fishy going on. First of all, although we’ve been told categorically that Woolmer was murdered, police have been vacillating over how the crime was perpetrated, with everything from diabetes drugs to strangling to snake venom to weedkillers to strangling-with-a-towel suggested. This is despite an autopsy and several pathology reports. The police have [...]