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PAKISTAN

Fears About a Would-Be Leader’s Mental Health

By Mark Hosenball | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 30, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 8, 2008

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  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 09/18/2008 7:00:44 PM

    Comment: Oh, no,you makes a mistake,
    when you think about the mental condition,
    of the president.

    pls be condiered the near past,
    effeciency in the election,
    which the tough procedure,
    through which he defeated opposit side,
    and gained the destination,

    The leaders,
    on otherside,having longstanding political experience,
    lost the game,
    could not approarched presidency,
    but he sccessed expressing his credibity,

    Arw you talking about safety of nuclear weapons,
    in pakistan,
    -pls don't worry,he has quality,experince,
    experience as political prisoner as well as leader,
    not a convicted person like Nawaz Sharif,
    all the court of the country,
    all the foriegn judicial system has been failed held guilty.

    You will see his dealing with insurgency,
    and maintain9ing foriegn relations with all power,
    countries including china,India,
    and middle east states,

    It is admireable,
    economy under his leadership,
    is taking a good shape,
    about which every one was saying that,
    it is uncontrolable task.

  • Posted By: peaceandprosperity @ 09/12/2008 1:00:24 PM

    Comment: Pakistans Millitary is the one who is supporting the millitants against America. Muslim radicals are now in power and they will NOT take any actions against the people who are against America. Pakistan's Millitary and Saudi regime is well organised religious fanatics and was responsible for poviding logistics support for 9/11 terrorists. They speak soft from outside to get our $10 Billion support and turn around and plan against us. Pakistan do not have any scruples or piety and they are bent on destroying USA, India and Afganistan to promote religious supermacy. Now the Mentally unstable guy is inchage of the Atomic Bomb? and every Pakistani is supporting the regime? America has to take care of their BOMB first otherwise they will pay a priced in the long run.

  • Posted By: Bisong @ 09/06/2008 10:03:49 AM

    Comment: Zardari has been voted president and behold, Pakistan is saddled with an ex-convict still facing criminal charges both at home and abroad as president. With the Taliban and al quaida closing in on Pakistan from all fronts, sooner or later, the country would become another 'naco-nation' or 'failed state'. Africa could not have done better.

  • Posted By: coll.env @ 09/06/2008 9:46:09 AM

    Comment: America has had the same problem for 8 long yrs.
    Mccain is another worry when it comes to mental illness !!!

  • Posted By: wbramh @ 09/06/2008 1:17:27 AM

    Comment: I'd love to be a fly on the wall for a Zardari / McCain Summit. They'd emerge together as the New Coalition of the Willing... and attack Cleveland.

  • Posted By: J Mango @ 09/04/2008 7:18:54 PM

    Comment: Are we really concerned with this possible leaders mental health after being imprisoned and having his wife assisinated? He shouldnt be able to rule a country with Nuclear capabilities?? Does the same reasoning apply to the U.S.? It should, Is anyone concerned about John McCains years as a POW???????? And the post traumatic stress that involves. They should be. Do we really want a war loving traumatized vet leading our country?? Not to mention Ronald Reagan who had alzheimers during his presidency and the Republicans thought he was the best president of all time. The U.S should really stop looking for the flaws in other leaders and countries and start recognizing them in our own.

  • Posted By: Safiullah Tazib @ 09/04/2008 12:56:44 PM

    Comment: No matter who is/become the boss in Pakistan, he will always manage to make a fool of the U.S in regards to Pakistan's role in the war against Taliban/al Qaeda. Pakistan has played and will always play a double game for that matter, at the expense of U.S utter naivety.

  • Posted By: Safiullah Tazib @ 09/04/2008 12:40:45 PM

    Comment: No matter who is/become the boss in Pakistan - a healthy man or an ill one, he certainly manages to make a fool of U.S, again and again in regad to Pakistan's role in the war agains terrorism. Pakistan will always play a double game when it comes to the question of Taliban/al Qaeda, at the expense of U.S utter naivety.
    Safiullah Tazib

  • Posted By: rpa540 @ 09/04/2008 9:18:18 AM

    Comment: I worry about Bush and Cheney being in the nuclear chain of command.

  • Posted By: FauxReal @ 09/03/2008 3:08:11 PM

    Comment: I saw the headline and expected a story about McCain.

  • Posted By: ltattoo @ 09/03/2008 11:27:34 AM

    Comment: someone with clout should demand that mccain release his va medical file. he has only released his civilian file. as a former va claims adjudicator, i imagine that the file contains a litany of mental and physical disorders, which is the usual fate for most pow's. if a pow calls the va with a new claim, all he/she needs is a physician's statement that he has a certain disorder and it is added as service-connected; he/she does not need to show nexus.

  • Posted By: kkhan @ 09/03/2008 10:13:11 AM

    Comment: Asif Ali Zardari cannot replace Musharraf, he could only fill the vacancy, which of course would lead to nothing else but a total national disaster. The intent to implant this man into the president's position should be immediately abandoned.
    Kabil Azad Khan.
    Montreal, Canada.

  • Posted By: paulnaranjo @ 09/03/2008 3:10:48 AM

    Comment: Anyone who tries to question McCains mental health due to his war time torture and imprisionment should also then must question Obamas mental health ddue to his peacetime drug and cocaine use.

  • Posted By: Condi1836 @ 09/02/2008 8:35:41 PM

    Comment: I'm not sure I am grasping the difference in Mr Zardari's imprisonment and Mr. McCain's. We are considering them both men to be in command of countries with nuclear weapons.

  • Posted By: rabidbutratonal @ 09/02/2008 7:15:20 PM

    Comment: The word "elision" is improperly used in the article. A simple word like omission would have been acurate.

  • Posted By: Don't GetFooledAgain @ 09/02/2008 6:24:07 PM

    Comment: I thought this was about McSame until I jumped to the article!

  • Posted By: SKVAM @ 09/02/2008 4:02:50 PM

    Comment: Given the murderousness of the Pakistani regime, in Bangladesh in the early 1970s, the killings of tribal peoples since Pakistan's founding, the support of perfectly mentally sane leaders who were morally bankrupt, I can live with mental disorders, but it's their perpetual financing of terrorism against neighbors Afghanistan and India that I find disgusting. Pakistan is a failed state.

    • Posted By: Chatta @ 09/02/2008 5:46:37 PM

      Comment: What about the murderousness of the US Government regimes from the 1960's to present, that finanically and politically supported dictators who killed tribal peoples, as they did throughout Latin American, and bankrolled terrorist groups, like the Nicaraguan contra. Isn't that equally disgusting, or are some terrorists and murderers less evil than others?
      And wouldn't US leaders qualify as 'morally bankrupt,' given their habit of invading other countries (overtly and covertly) for their personal gain, like say oil? Does that make the US a failed state too?
      I think Americans have the shortest memory!

  • Posted By: Chatta @ 09/02/2008 3:14:23 PM

    Comment: I'm surprised that US officials are outraged that a mentally-ill individual could be involved in a nuclear chain of command, particularly as a lot of people would not consider the current President of the United States all-together sane. If you think about it,he fits the 'anxious, apprehensive, emotionally unstable, demented, delusional and faulty memory' bill perfectly with his rants about "weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," "persistent threat of a terrorist strike on US soil," "I don't know why the rest of the world hates Americans," "The White House does not fabricate evidence," "The White House did not authorise the dismissal of attorneys." Need I go on?
    So let's see about removing the plank from your own eye before trying to help someone with their speck.

    And that's not to say all is well in Pakistan either. But you know what, let Pakistan choose who it want to be leader. The US should stop running interference, including mouthing off on other people's choices. Thanks to the US, the people of Palestine democratically elected Hamas -- yay for democracy!

  • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 09/02/2008 2:35:46 PM

    Comment: A PAKASTANI LEADER THAT MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO BE TRUSTED WHO MIGHT ALSO HAVE MENTAL ISSUES......................THAT'S A TOUGH ONE.................WITH THOSE QUALIFICATIONS HE IS SHOE-IN FOR THE POST AND PROBABLY THE NEXT NATIONAL SPIRITUAL LEADER!..........YEA, THEY HAVE THE BOMB, BUT........................ARE THEY ABLE TO GET IT ANY FURTHER THAN INDIA..............NOT UNTIL THEY STEAL THE TECHNOLOGY AND THEN IF THEY DID HAVE IT, THE INDIANS WOULD ATTACK ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.......................SO.....................MUSHARAAF....................OR THIS KNUCKLEHEAD...........NO DIFFERENCE......................BUT ARE WE STUPID ENOUGH TO POUR MORE MONEY ON THIS IDIOT, LIKE WE DID WITH MUSHARAAF?

  • Posted By: ayishaq @ 09/02/2008 2:06:40 PM

    Comment: funny how the world now knows something that the common Pakistani man/woman has known for years!!! This man is obviously nuts, is obviously corrupt and has no intentions of changing anything and someone is crazy enough to put HIM in charge??! how can a country succeed or move along, if the leadership can't even find a semi-sane person to lead??!!

  • Posted By: Iconoblaster @ 09/02/2008 1:58:41 PM

    Comment: Post-traumatic stress syndrome from abuse suffered while imprisoned, is that the diagnosis? Mood swings, depression, fits of anger.. "We normally wouldn't want a person like that in the nuclear chain of command" observes an American official. I can agree with that. You wouldn't want to entrust critical decisions about the use of nuclear weapons to a volatile and unstable person, after all.

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/02/2008 1:51:28 PM

    Comment: I always thought it could be the case with MCCain. The fact that he goes into rages, prooves that he is mentally unstable.

  • Posted By: SteveKelson @ 09/02/2008 1:26:36 PM

    Comment: McCain has fought for YEARS to keep the records/ debriefing away from the eyes of the country.
    There's a REASON why McCain is so passionate about this privacy.......

  • Posted By: SteveKelson @ 09/02/2008 1:12:49 PM

    Comment: Excellent insight. Now write the same article on John McCain. Get a world class psychologist to assist you.
    Assemble a team of 'analysts' The outcome I believe, will indicate a serious personality disorder.
    Check up on McCain. Google "PW songbird + admirals son" It appears as though McCain is totally distorting
    his POW status. It appears as though he totally cracked up and gave North Vietnam numerous military secrets.
    Decide for yourself, but dont fail to read up on Mr. War 'hero'


    • Posted By: paulnaranjo @ 09/03/2008 3:13:30 AM

      Comment: You are a *** lying communist.

  • Posted By: Crazytoo @ 09/02/2008 12:49:16 PM

    Comment: One of our Presedential Candidates was a POW and probably suffered from some Post Traumatic Stress DIsorder symptoms, but he may still be our next President and in control of a very large arsenal.

  • Posted By: Tojo @ 09/02/2008 12:35:00 PM

    Comment: The world should take immediate note and see to it that unless he is clearly and fully certified as being in sound state of mind, Asif Zardari should not be elected the President of the nuclear state. It is simply unacceptable.

    Syed Hussain

  • Posted By: garysgary @ 09/02/2008 12:28:53 PM

    Comment: Let him take office...we've had a retard for years!

  • Posted By: RangerDan @ 09/02/2008 12:28:01 PM

    Comment: Why not give the guy the bomb? Let's give pedophiles Viagra, the town drunks abarrel of whiskey, and let Charles Manson out of jail while we're at it.

    • Posted By: Iconoblaster @ 09/02/2008 2:04:45 PM

      Comment: Pakistan already HAS "the bomb"...there is no question of "giving" it to anyone. It may surprise some Americans if people in Pakistan do not regard THEIR election of a President as a proper matter for the United States to forbid or permit...or even offer an opinion that Pakistanis should be expected to consider... in the first place.

  • Posted By: fog80 @ 09/02/2008 11:29:12 AM

    Comment: seeing how he is fit enough to be president. why arent those cases now proceeding?

    • Posted By: Tojo @ 09/02/2008 12:38:28 PM

      Comment: A very good suggestion. If he is fit and in sound health, then charge him for fraud cases now pending against him. If he is mentally incapable then he must not be allowed to run for the post of President. It is too dangerous.

  • Posted By: rkhatal @ 09/02/2008 11:04:42 AM

    Comment: He was sick only until he did not have the authority to overturn investigations against him for corruptions. Now that he can stop all those investigations, he is cured !!

 
 
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