Governor of Pakistan's Punjab province assassinated

[Chris_]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A gunman assassinated the governor of Pakistan's central Punjab province, a senior member of the ruling party, in Islamabad on Tuesday, an aide said, as a new political crisis gripped the strategic U.S. ally.

Salman Taseer was killed by one of his guards probably because of his opposition to Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.

Rights groups say the law is often exploited by religious extremists as well as ordinary Pakistanis to settle personal scores.

Islamist groups have been angry over what they believe were government plans to change or scrap the law.

Reuters

[BlueStateSaint]

How close are we to having the government of Pakistan lose control, and those nukes winding up in the wrong hands?

Methinks that we're a lot closer to that happening.

[md11hydmec]

And the left thinks the Christians are trying to make the US a theocracy,.  They have plenty of examples of what a true theocracy is.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Pretty close.  They are caught between an urban civil society that wants a Socialist democracy and controls all the wealth and infrastructure, and a broader population that has enough voting power in a democracy to ensure that it quickly becomes another squalid Islamic theocracy if they do have a chance to vote it into power.  Kinda like Germany in 1933 - it's caught between two equally bad options.

[md11hydmec]

Pretty close.  They are caught between an urban civil society that wants a Socialist democracy and controls all the wealth and infrastructure, and a broader population that has enough voting power in a democracy to ensure that it quickly becomes another squalid Islamic theocracy if they do have a chance to vote it into power.  Kinda like Germany in 1933 - it's caught between two equally bad options.

Exactly. 

[Ptarmigan]

Pakistan is a failed state.