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April 28, 2006


Vacationing in Pakistan Off The Table

If I'm reading the wire stories correctly, it's probably a bad idea if you're a media person to visit Pakistan for a while unless you're absolutely clear that you or your employers haven't been indicted or won't be indicted on this "depiction of Muhammed" business. Pakistan seems to be the only country where traction was gained affording prosecutors the leeway to instigate legal action against any and all such agencies that carried such imagery, including if they're outside of Pakistan but able in some fashion to have caused the depictions to be seen in Pakistan. In fact, some of the proponents of the indictments are saying they're going to ask international authorities to bring the offenders to Pakistan like it or lump it, which I can't imagine happening but is terrifying just for the possibility that anyone would consider this a just thing.
 
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