tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259162911831467271.post4094677279077482198..comments2023-05-07T15:55:07.365+00:00Comments on Ramblings from Afar: Maulanas on TV and an Anatomy of a SeigeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259162911831467271.post-47124601523368928192007-07-06T11:38:00.000+00:002007-07-06T11:38:00.000+00:00Though conspiracy theories are always distasteful ...Though conspiracy theories are always distasteful to my mind but in this particular case I can’t rule out some kind of collusion between Musharraf’s regime and these clerics. Musharraf has shown some uncharacteristic flexibility towards Lal Masjid clerics and if we look at the motives he has everything to gain by highlighting this issue to the Washington and also to the liberal circles in Pakistan. You rightly pointed out that these guys are just not masterminds of anything. They are, in fact, quiet hapless, buffoonish not in that they are stupid, but almost sheepish as if they've been playing a naughty game and have been found out.<BR/><BR/>Another possibility that you mentioned that they have lost control of the Frankenstein’s monster that they created sounds plausible but this madrassah is located near the headquarters of Pakistan’s ubiquitous ISI. So either there are elements within ISI who are opposed to Musharraf or there is a collusion between Musharraf’s regime and Lal Masjid clerics, or some elements associated with the Lal Masjid. <BR/><BR/>It really is a complex picture and it is premature to say anything with certainty but I am sure that even when this drama ends, we may never know what exactly happened there. I wish we had a law like in the USA where they make the confidential documents public after 50 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com