PAKISTAN'S REGIME: BACK FROM THE BRINK - FOR THE TIME BEING...

NYTIMES:

A day after Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani announced a rollback of fuel price increases that were deeply unpopular in Pakistan, a major political party said on Friday that it would rejoin the ruling coalition, defusing a tense political standoff and saving Mr. Gilani’s government from potential collapse, news reports said.

... While the government appears to have survived for the moment, it does so at the expense of political and economic reforms encouraged by the United States.

TICK... TICK.. TICK... WE STILL NEED A MORE STABLE AND RELIABLE REGIME IN PAKISTAN. A MILITARY COUP WOULD BE BEST.