Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, under pressure from his U.S. supporters yielded and agreed to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudry. The U.S. supports President Zardari but the administration is also supporting public marches and demonstrations to which Zardari and his appointed local governor, Salmaan Taseer, have opposed. The main demonstration that was planned was directed by former Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, ostensibly with the goal of getting President Zardari to reinstate the former Chief Justice Chaudry who was ousted during former President Pervez Musharraf’s administration.
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U.S. – Pakistan: Obama Misstep or Policy Shift?
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Benazir Bhutto, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudry, Nawaz Sharif, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, PML-N, PPP, President Obama, President Zardari
I want to give the administration a chance but they sure have botched several opportunities and given their opponents room for criticism. No one and no group is going to do anything perfectly but here is a short list of the things I think they should have handled more professionally:
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -
Letting Nancy Pelosi’s House craft its own version of the bill without oversight from Larry Summers and/or Tim Geithner was a mistake. The President had to catch some egg on his face when the inflammatory version came out and then he had to manage the uproar by making Pelosi drop some of the more egregious items in the bill.
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Is the Obama Administration Blowing Its Opportunities?
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America Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Bill Richardson, Democrat, Krygyzstan, Larry Summers, Nancy Killefer, Nancy Pelosi, Obama Administration, Ron Kirk, Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle
