Hulleye Comes By!

business week interviews shaukat aziz during his stay in the US. he speaks about how pakistan is picking itself up after the earthquake and the US bombing and his tenure as prime minister.

So you feel things are much better than they were five years ago?
Definitely. I think most people now feel that. And one indicator is that you can’t find hotel rooms in Pakistan anymore!

The U.S. is a big backer of your reform efforts.
They’ve been a great ally and a great friend of ours.

But how do you feel when the U.S. bombs a Pakistani village?
You know our view. It’s a very regrettable incident. We cannot condone it. Innocent lives have been lost. At the same time we are very committed to fight terrorism, jointly with the U.S. and others. Because terrorism is no solution to any problem, and loss of innocent life is unfair. So we are committed to fighting terrorism. But there is a need for more coordination and more communication. The people of Pakistan are very angry.

yes ladies and gentlemen, this is your prime minister speaking. jack ass frosh students in first year university judge national economies by hotel room capacities, yet i could swear i read the same thing being said by our prime minister in this interview.

in case anyone cares, whenever people browsing here using internet explorer came along, the sidebar (the one with the quotes, blogroll, news feeds etc.) on the right used to drop all the way down to the bottom of the page. i’ve finally found the time to fix that.

it’s the way IE handles objects and is a non-standards compliant browser and objects in one container wouldn’t be able to overlap into the next container. so that issue should be solved now. people using firefox and other browsers wouldn’t have experienced this issue.