How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

Post by pknerd » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 1:30 PM UTC

iamshs wrote: post #49

pknerd wrote: post #45

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Our neighbor's democratic PM has a pro-Hinduism agenda despite of heading a secular state. A year back many opposite voices silents who raised questions about the fake surgical strike. What's your point here by the way?

Dude, your law and order has made sure to eliminate all Sikhs not only in Pakistan but even in Afghanistan. Million strong minority has been reduced to mere thousand. Let’s not point fingers here, your dictators have made this whole region a hellhole for minorities.

Post by YCode » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

hutzlibu wrote: post #34

nobrains wrote: post #25

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Even if it was, it would beg the question of probability of them (1) installing and using the beta and (2) somehow selecting an obscure font and (3) the font ends up becoming the default font years later.

Or someone else smuggled the font on their computer, so to set them up on this corruption case 12 years later ... also possible, but even less likely.

Post by arif_sohaib » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 1:50 PM UTC

baybal2 wrote: post #39

amingilani wrote: post #13

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That may have been true a few decades ago, but it's certainly becoming more democratic.. still not the best, though. Especially with the military curb circulations of a private national newspaper.

Attack on Dawn and Geo were first of a kind after 5 years lull. In last 5 years, Pakistan saw, well, nothing less than an explosion in privately owned press and TV channels.

Post by arif_sohaib » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 1:54 PM UTC

nobrains wrote: post #22

ankit219 wrote: post #19

Pakistan acted on the Panama papers is a big news since a lot of countries with allegedly a hard stance against corruption did not.

It was mostly due to the efforts of one man, Imran Khan.

Post by icebraining » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 1:58 PM UTC

hutzlibu wrote: post #36

degenerate wrote: post #26

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Good. Corruption needs jail time, not just fines.

Only if the same standard is held to everyone. I don't know any details about this case nor pakistans situation in general, but I know that in most corrupt states, corruption trials are usually used in a power struggle, where one corrupt side brings down the other side, and just has their own corpses better buried and/or is connected better to the investigators/secret intelligence.