En Syrie, Homs au bord de la guerre civile

LE FIGARO: L'armée fait le siège de cette ville, où les heurts confessionnels se multiplient.

Pour le cinquième jour consécutif, Homs était encerclée mardi par les forces de sécurité, qui cherchent à venir à bout de la révolte de nombreux habitants de cette ville mosaïque, théâtre d'affrontements confessionnels, parfois meurtriers.

Une fois encore, c'est le quartier résidentiel de Bab Amro qui a le plus souffert. «Les soldats sont entrés dans les maisons pour arrêter des personnes recherchées», précise l'Observatoire syrien des droits de l'homme (OSDH), une ONG proche de l'opposition au régime de Bachar el-Assad. Un civil a été tué lors des perquisitions, tandis que dans un autre quartier, une fillette est morte dans l'explosion d'une roquette qui a touché sa maison.

Le pilonnage de Bab Amro a commencé en fin de semaine dernière. Puis la nuit de dimanche à lundi, les redoutés chabiha, ces miliciens à la solde du pouvoir, ont lancé leur assaut contre ce quartier où de nombreux déserteurs ont trouvé refuge avec leurs armes. Tous ses habitants n'ont pas eu le temps de fuir. Plusieurs dizaines de civils ont été tués et de très nombreux autres blessés, en cinq jours de violences. » | Par Georges Malbrunot | mardi 08 novembre 2011

The Worst Form of Censorship
THE SPECTATOR: A week ago, the offices of the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo were burned down. This attack came after it advertised the founder of Islam, Muhammad, as 'editor-in-chief' of the new issue. The move was a light-hearted response to the very serious matter of the election of an Islamist party (the Ennahda party) as the leading party in Tunisia (a result which, incidentally, appears not to have greatly bothered most European media).

As the staff of Charlie Hebdo contemplated the ruins of their magazine, a much grander and richer magazine, Time, ran one of those pieces which have become familiar whenever there is an Islamist assault against free speech. As Nick Cohen has also noted, the Paris correspondent of Time magazine –- the almost too-perfectly named Bruce Crumley –- used the burning of their offices to taunt Charlie Hebdo's journalists[.]

'Do you still think the price you paid for printing an offensive, shameful, and singularly humor-deficient parody on the logic of 'because we can' was so worthwhile?' he asked before going down a related track by denouncing French politicians who had criticised the firebombing. Mr Crumley is apparently not a fan of free-expression, or even slight jokes, when it comes to Islam. In this respect he is not unique. He follows in a long and ignoble line of useless idiots.

In 2004 when Theo van Gogh was murdered on a street in Amsterdam by a Islamic fundamentalist it was Index on Censorship's turn. You would have thought that with a title like 'Index on Censorship', the reader could expect such a magazine to do what it says on the masthead. Yet in what should have been a pretty straightforward test ('for or against the murder of people who express their opinions') Index on Censorship managed to land it wrong.

They published a piece which claimed that it was not van Gogh's murderer but van Gogh himself who had been a 'fundamentalist'; not Mohammed Bouyeri (the killer), but van Gogh (the killed) who had been on a 'martyrdom operation' by having the temerity to say mean things about Islam. Index on Censorship's author went on to imply that the whole murder was some type of performance art designed to promote van Gogh's new film on the assassination of another critic of Islam, Pim Fortuyn. Read on and comment » | DOUGLAS MURRAY | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Herman Cain Vows to Fight On

THE GUARDIAN: Republican candidate for presidential nomination will not pull out of race despite fresh allegations of sexual harassment

The embattled Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has insisted he is not planning to pull out of the race despite a second woman coming forward to abandon anonymity and publicly accuse him of sexual harassment.

The woman, Karen Kraushaar, a 55-year-old treasury official, said she wanted all four women making sexual harassment allegations to hold a joint press conference.

Cain held a press conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, denying the allegations, in particular seamy details offered by Sharon Bialek, who accused him of forcing himself on her in a car in Washington.

He said he did not remember either Bialek or the alleged incident. "I did not recognise the name, the face, the voice," he said.

He faces an awkward event on Wednesday night: a nationally televised presidential debate in which he can only hope his rivals will not seek to exploit the allegations on air. After a week of silence, his Republican opponents have begun to raise the issue.

Cain denies all allegations made by Bialek and Kraushaar, as well as two other women, who have so far opted to remain anonymous.

"The charges and accusations I absolutely reject. They simply didn't happen. They simply did not happen," he said. » | Ewen MacAskill in Washington | Wednesday, November 09, 2011

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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Herman Cain is a monster, says second woman: A second woman who claims she was sexually harassed by Herman Cain identified herself last night, as the Republican presidential hopeful said he would undergo a lie detector test to prove his innocence. » | Jon Swaine, Washington | Wednesday, November 09, 2011

UK Border Chief Brodie Clark Quits with Broadside against Theresa May

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The senior civil servant at the heart of the scandal over relaxed passport checks has made a direct attack on Theresa May, accusing the Home Secretary of misleading the public.

Brodie Clark quit as head of the UK Border Agency’s border force and said he would lodge a claim for constructive dismissal. Mr Clark also claimed that he had come under “pressure” from ministers to compromise security checks in order to reduce queues at airports.

His resignation and attack on Mrs May escalates the most serious immigration row the Coalition has faced. The Home Secretary is under intense pressure over a loosening of border controls that allowed an unknown number of foreign nationals – potentially including terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants – to enter the country without full security checks.

Over the summer, she secretly authorised border staff to stop checking biometric data in the passports of European arrivals at ports and airports. She says Mr Clark then defied her clear orders and extended the policy to non-Europeans.

The Home Secretary rejected calls for her resignation yesterday and denied that her actions had led to “security breaches”. » | James Kirkup, Deputy Political Editor | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

What a cock up! Can't these politicians – right, left, or centre – understand that we, the electorate, are sick to the back teeth of all these illegal immigrants coming into this country? Further, are they so stupid that they can't seal the borders? What idiots! What highly-paid idiots they are! The damn, bloody lot of them! – © Mark

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Banning Tintin from Children's Shelves Is 'Politically Correct Lunacy', Says Vatican Newspaper

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: 'Tintin in the Congo', the comic banned from the children's shelves of British book shops, is an example of "politically correct lunacy", according to the Vatican's official newspaper.

L'Osservatore Romano hailed the Belgian boy reporter as a "Catholic hero" and said it was ridiculous that the comic book had been "wrapped up like a pornographic magazine and consigned to the adults-only section" of book shops in the UK.

The newspaper, which generally reflects the view of the Vatican, asked whether the act of censorship – on the grounds that the comic is racist – was "an appropriate protection of the defenceless children of Her Majesty, or politically correct lunacy in the shadow of Big Ben."

The book, published by Egmont, is being sold in Britain with a protective band around it, warning that its portrayal of Africans as wide-eyed simpletons would offend some readers and was based on "the bourgeois, paternalistic stereotypes of the period."

But an editorial in L'Osservatore Romano said: "It is essential to take into account the historical context to avoid entering the realm of the ridiculous," arguing that the book by Herge, the Belgian artist whose real name was George Remi, reflected the values prevalent in Europe between the wars.

"The comic book was published in the 1930s, and for that reason expresses the values of the era – but can it really perturb young Britons of today, raised as they are on the internet, video games and fish and chips?"

If retrospective political correctness was taken to its logical conclusion then scouting should be banned because the movement was founded by Lord Baden Powell, who as well as being "a military man and a writer was also a racist and a eugenicist," the newspaper said. » | Nick Squires, Rome | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Threatens US
YNET NEWS: General Hajizadeh says 'if you kill any of us, we will kill dozens of you,' while Ahmadinejad claims Tehran does not need nuclear bomb to confront US. FM Salehi: If we wanted to develop nukes we would declare so openly

Islamic Republic escalates rhetoric ahead of IAEA report: A top commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard force threatened to kill "dozens" of American military commanders, should the US kill any one of theirs.

"You also should not forget that American commanders have plenty of presence and travel in the region. If you kill any of us, we will kill dozens of you," Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the Guards' aerospace division, was quoted by Fars agency on Tuesday as saying.

Earlier last week several American neoconservatives, including retired US Army general Jack Keane, urged the Obama administration to use covert action against Iran and target members of the Quds Force, the Guard's special foreign actions unit.

Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that his country did not need a nuclear bomb to confront the US.

"If America wants to confront the Iranian nation, it will certainly regret the Iranian nation's response," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the IRNA news agency. "They are saying that Iran is seeking the atomic bomb. But they should know ... we do not need a bomb ... Rather we will act thoughtfully and with logic. History has shown that anyone acting against the Iranian nation regrets it." » | Dudi Cohen, AP | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

The Ultra-Orthodox Bomb
YNET NEWS: Op-ed: In light of demographic trends, Israel en route to becoming Iran-style state

Former Mossad Chief Efraim Halevy knows a thing or two about the dangers lurking for Israel. In a recent lecture he claimed that the danger of ultra-Orthodox radicalization is greater than the Iranian threat.

Halevy’s words prompted protests, of course. Members of Shas and United Torah Judaism accused him of resorting to grave incitement. They are certain, or pretend to be certain, that the ultra-Orthodox improve the status of Jews before God, and that the more people study Torah, the greater the people of Israel’s security would be.

We should note time and again that the overwhelming majority of Orthodox rabbis in the Diaspora objected to Zionism because they believed the Jews should remain in the Diaspora until God shall salvage them. After the Holocaust, they claimed that it constituted a punishment for shunning our Torah.

Haredi leaders in Israel did not change this basic view, even if they do not voice it much: The salvation of the Jews is at the hands of God in the heavens and does not depend on the skill of our pilots in the skies. » | Yaron London | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Grundsatzrede – Clinton: „Islamische Parteien nach ihren Taten bewerten“
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: Außenministerin Hillary Clinton bietet in einer Grundsatzrede den aufstrebenden islamischen Parteien in Staaten des „arabischen Frühlings“ die Zusammenarbeit mit den Vereinigten Staaten an. Sie fordert aber die Einhaltung rechtsstaatlicher Prinzipien.

Die Vereinigten Staaten wollen mit den aufstrebenden islamischen Parteien in den Ländern des „Arabischen Frühlings“ zusammenarbeiten. Der Gedanke, dass gläubige Muslime nicht in einer Demokratie leben könnten, sei „beleidigend, gefährlich und falsch“, sagte Außenministerin Hillary Clinton am Montag in einer Grundsatzrede in Washington. Die Vereinigten Staaten wollten die islamischen Parteien nicht nach ihren Namen, sondern nach ihren Taten bewerten. » | Quelle: AFP/AP | Dienstag 08. November 2011

Nétanyahou “menteur” : la conversation secrète Obama-Sarkozy
Diffusés par erreur aux journalistes pendant le G20, ces propos sont restés "off"

ARRÊT SUR IMAGES: C'était une conversation franche, entre chefs d'Etat, à propos d'un autre dirigeant. Echange à bâtons rompus, et à huis-clos. Enfin, qui aurait dû rester à huis-clos. C'était sans compter sur une maladresse de l'organisation, et la curiosité de quelques journalistes. Révélations sur deux petites phrases qui voguent bien loin du langage habituellement policé des sommets diplomatiques.

Jeudi 3 novembre, lors du sommet du G20 à Cannes, Nicolas Sarkozy rencontrait Barack Obama lors d'un "entretien bilatéral". Comme il est d'usage, Les deux hommes ont fait face aux journalistes, mais ont aussi discuté en privé, dans une pièce à part, loin des oreilles indiscrètes, afin de pouvoir se libérer de toute retenue diplomatique. Cela a été le cas, mais pour la discrétion, c'est raté.

Selon nos informations, les deux présidents ont laissé de côté toute retenue à propos du délicat dossier des relations israélo-palestiniennes. Obama a d'abord reproché à Sarkozy de ne pas l'avoir prévenu qu'il allait voter en faveur de l'adhésion de la Palestine à l'Unesco, alors que les Etats-Unis y étaient fermement opposés. La conversation a ensuite dérivé sur Benyamin Nétanyahou, le Premier ministre israélien. Sûrs de ne pas être entendus, les deux présidents se sont lâchés. "Je ne peux plus le voir, c'est un menteur", a lancé Sarkozy. "Tu en as marre de lui, mais moi, je dois traiter avec lui tous les jours !", a rétorqué Obama, qui a ensuite demandé à Sarkozy d'essayer de convaincre les Palestiniens de mettre la pédale douce sur leur demande d'adhésion à l'ONU. » | Par Dan Israel | lundi 07 novembre 2011

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FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: „Ich kann ihn nicht ausstehen, er ist ein Lügner“: Nicolas Sarkozy hat in einem vertraulichen Gespräch mit Barack Obama den israelischen Ministerpräsidenten Netanjahu angegriffen. Was der französische Präsident allerdings nicht wusste, viele Journalisten hörten mit. » | MICHAELA WIEGEL, PARIS | Dienstag 08. November 2011

Nicolas Sarkozy Complained to Barack Obama of Liar Benjamin Netanyahu

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy have inadvertently broadcast a private exchange during which they confessed their distaste for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and branded him a “liar".

The French and American presidents were speaking during an encounter on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Cannes last week without realising that a simultaneous translation of their words was being transmitted to journalists outside the room.

As the conversation drifted to Israel, Mr Sarkozy is reported to have said: “I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.”

Mr Obama did not challenge the assertion, instead replying: “You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him every day.”

The exchange provides the most tantalising evidence yet of the growing antipathy with which Mr Netanyahu is said to be held by many Western leaders.

President Obama has had a frequently strained relationship with the Israeli leader. In March last year, Mr Netanyahu was left to stew in a White House meeting room for over an hour after the president allegedly walked out of tense talks to have dinner with his family. » | Adrian Blomfield | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

THE GUARDIAN: Sarkozy and Obama's Netanyahu gaffe broadcast via microphones: French president called Israeli PM a liar in exchange with US president inadvertently shared with journalists » | Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem and Angelique Chrisafis in Paris | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

MAIL ONLINE: Sarkozy: 'I can't stand him… he’s a liar': Obama: 'You're fed up with him - I have to deal with him every day!'
Presidents' unflattering comments about Israeli PM Netanyahu are broadcast at G20 summit » | Anthony Bond | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

'This Isn't a Party Town!' Mayor Warns Prince Harry Not to 'Fornicate the Night Away' as He Settles into Sleepy Arizona Township
MAIL ONLINE: Gila Bend was chosen by the MoD for Apache helicopter training because the desert region resembles the mountain terrain of Afghanistan / 'Fathers here would go to extremes to protect their daughters,' says the town's mayor

Prince Harry has been ordered to be on his best behaviour on his latest posting in the United States.

The party-loving prince has been moved to the tiny town of Gila Bend in the Arizona desert for the final stage of a two-month advanced weapons training course.

Ron Henry, mayor of the 1,700-strong community where many residents are devout Christians, says Harry should take care as his reputation as a ladies' man has gone before him.

'There are probably some fathers here who would go to extremes to protect their daughters,' said Mr Henry, 64. 'Some of the dads won't take too kindly to a Prince fornicating the night away.' » | REBECCA ENGLISH, ROYAL CORRESPONDENT | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Prince Harry warned over 'fornicating' in Christian US town: The mayor of a US town where Prince Harry is staying during helicopter training has warned him to be on his best behaviour with its young women. » | Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Comment l’austérité est appliquée en Grèce

US Election 2012: Woman Breaks Silence to Say Herman Cain Sexually Groped Her

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A woman broke her silence to accuse Republican presidential contender Herman Cain of sexually groping her in a car, when she asked him for help in finding a new job in 1997.

Sharon Bialek became the first woman to go public with detailed allegations, amid swirling accusations by four different women of sexual harassment by Cain, vying to be crowned the Republican Party's nominee for the 2012 elections.

She also became the first to offer graphic details of what has been referred to as "inappropriate behaviour" by Cain, a former pizza company executive now at the top of the opinion polls in the Republican White House race.

Bialek said she had appealed to Cain for help after she was let go from her job with the educational department of the National Restaurant Association, of which he was the then president. The two were driving in a car in Washington, when Cain pulled over.

"He suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals. He also grabbed my head and brought it towards his crotch," Bialek told a packed press conference in a private club in New York.

"I was very, very surprised and very shocked. I said, 'what are you doing? You know I have a boyfriend. This isn't what I came here for.' Mr Cain said, 'You want a job, right?'" » | Monday, October 07, 2011

Women & Islam: The Rise and Rise of the Convert

THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY: Three-quarters of Britons who become Muslims are female. Now a major new study has shed light on the difficulties they face in adjusting to their new life.

Record numbers of young, white British women are converting to Islam, yet many are reporting a lack of help as they get used to their new religion, according to several surveys.

As Muslims celebrate the start of the religious holiday of Eid today and hundreds of thousands from around the world converge on Mecca for the haj, it emerged that of the 5,200 Britons who converted to Islam last year, more than half are white and 75 per cent of them women.

In the past 10 years some 100,000 British people have converted to Islam, of whom some three-quarters are women, according to the latest statistics. This is a significant increase on the 60,000 Britons in the previous decade, according to researchers based at Swansea University.

While the number of UK converts accelerates, many of the British women who adopt Islam say they have a daily struggle to assimilate their new beliefs within a wider culture that both implicitly and explicitly positions them as outsiders, regardless of their Western upbringing.

More than three-quarters told researchers they had experienced high levels of confusion after conversion, due to the conflicting ways Islam was presented to them. While other major religions have established programmes for guiding new believers through the rigours of their faith, Islam still lacks any such network, especially outside the Muslim hubs of major cities.

Many mosques still bar women from worship or provide scant resources for their needs, forcing them to rely on competing cultural and ideological interpretations within books or the internet for religious support. » | RICHARD PEPPIATT | Sunday, November 06, 2011

Turkey Investigated Over Chemical Weapons Claim
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: A Turkish human rights group is investigating claims by Kurdish activists that Ankara used chemical weapons in an attack on militants in the east of the country last month.

The activists are circulating gruesome pictures of some of the 24 rebels, from the PKK guerrilla group, killed in the Kazan Valley in air raids that began on October 19. Blackened and dismembered, the corpses lie in a morgue in a nearby town with weeping relatives nearby.

Their allegations have forced their way into the open in Turkey, which is usually fiercely nationalist when it comes to accusations of abuse by the Kurds, whose campaign for autonomy is a long-running sore. The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made a public denial of them as a "slander" while on his recent trip to the G20 summit in Cannes.

The activists say the only explanation for the type of burns exhibited is that some chemical agent was used. Their claims has now been raised by MPs from the legal pro-Kurdish party, the BDP, and taken up by the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD). » | Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent | Sunday, November 06, 2011

Theresa May: We Will Never Know How Many People Got Through Without Proper Checks

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Theresa May, the Home Secretary, admitted today that the number of people who entered the country without being checked against a Home Office database of terror suspects and illegal immigrants will never be known.

Mrs May said she had launched three inquiries in to what happened at the force as she told MPs senior staff had extended a pilot scheme she had authorised in April designed to focus checks on high-risk passengers entering the UK.

She told the House of Commons senior officials had "let down" hard-working staff and promised that those found guilty of relaxing checks without authorisation from ministers would be punished.

Mrs May said UK border force head Brodie Clark "authorised the wider relaxation of border controls without ministerial sanction."

Mr Clark, has since been suspended amid reports that border guards were told this summer not to bother checking fingerprints and other personal details against a Home Office database of terror suspects and illegal immigrants.

The Home Secretary said in July she agreed the UK Border Agency (UKBA) could "pilot a scheme that would allow Border Force officials to target intelligence-led checks on higher-risk categories of travellers". Read on and comment » | Monday, November 07, 2011

Why the hell is border control such a problem? Other countries are able to control their borders, to wit Switzerland, so why can't we? Are we really that dumb? – © Mark

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Herman Cain Faces Fourth Sexual Harassment Claim

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A fourth woman to accuse Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment will outline allegations against him at a news conference in New York today.

The woman alleges she was sexually harassed by Cain "when she sought his help with an employment issue when he was President of the National Restaurant Association," according to a statement by her lawyer, Gloria Allred. The news conference is scheduled for 1:30pm (1830 GMT).

She will become the first person to give her name and come forward publicly to lay out her case against Cain, a front-runner in the Republican presidential race.

At least three other women have accused him of sexual harassment from his time as the restaurant industry's top lobbyist in the mid-1990s. Cain, 65, insists the claims are baseless and that he was wrongfully accused. » | Monday, November 07, 2011

Israel droht mit Militärschlag

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DIE PRESSE: Frankreich warnt vor Militärschlag gegen den Iran: Frankreichs Außenminister Juppe befürchtet eine "völlige Destabilisierung" der Region, sollte Israel Ziele im Iran angreifen. » | Ag. | Sonntag 06. November 2011

Rechtsextreme wollen ein "Russland nur für Russen"

WELT ONLINE: Am "Tag der nationalen Einheit" protestieren Tausende vermummte Rechtsextremisten in Russland. Sie fordern einen Zuzugsstopp von "Nichtrussen" aus Zentralasien.

Tausende Nationalisten und Rechtsextreme haben in Moskau und anderen Städten zum „Tag der nationalen Einheit“ für ein starkes und slawisches Russland demonstriert. „Russland nur für Russen“, skandierten die teils mit schwarzen Masken vermummten Rechtsextremen unter starkem Sicherheitsaufgebot in der russischen Hauptstadt. Die Polizei sprach Medien zufolge von 7000 Teilnehmern, die Organisatoren dagegen gaben die Zahl mit 25.000 an.

Vor der Parlamentswahl in einem Monat forderten die Demonstranten die Regierungspartei auf, den islamisch geprägten Nordkaukasus nicht weiter „zu füttern“. Die Spannungen zwischen Nationalisten und den Kaukasiern sind traditionell groß. Die Neonazis zeigten bei Kundgebungen auch in anderen Städten wie so oft am 4. November Hakenkreuze und forderten einen sofortigen Zuzugsstopp von „Nichtrussen“ aus Zentralasien und dem Kaukasus. » | dpa/jm | Freitag 04. November 2011

Imran Khan Predicts 'a Revolution' in Pakistani Politics

THE GUARDIAN: Former national cricket captain vows to fight corruption and negotiate with the Taliban in address to 100,000 at Lahore rally

At the height of his cricket glory days, Imran Khan would visualise winning – standing on the podium, cup held aloft – and propelling Pakistan to victory. Last weekend, standing before a sea of supporters in Lahore, he had a similar epiphany about his political career.

"As I stood there, watching them, I knew the moment had come," Khan, who is the leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insafr party, said. "Now nothing can stop us. This is a revolution, a tsunami. We will not just win the next elections – we will sweep them."

Whether the former cricket captain can translate rhetoric into reality is hotly debated. Yet few doubt that last weekend's rally sent shockwaves across Pakistan's moribund political system.

Over 100,000 people crammed into a historic Lahore park. Many were middle-class Pakistanis – young, urban, educated – drawn by Khan's rhetoric and their anger at conventional politics.

"This is the emergence of a new force. The cry for change is resonating across Pakistan," said Ayaz Amir, a parliamentarian from rival Nawaz Sharif's party, who was there. "Young, old, professionals, women – I've never seen such people at a public meeting in Pakistan before."

The sight, Amir added, had "scared the living daylights" out of his own party. » | Declan Walsh in Islamabad | Sunday, November 06, 2011